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Bioremediation: Current Research Trends and Applications

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Environmental pollution due to heavy metals, nuclear wastes, pesticides, nuclear gases, hydrocarbons, etc. seems to be of significant concern. The only possible solution to this is remediation using microbial processes (bioremediation). Bioremediation employs microbial metabolism under optimum environmental conditions and sufficient nutrients to degrade contaminants. This has proven to be effective and reliable due to its eco-friendly nature. Both in situ and ex situ techniques of bioremediation can be employed to reduce pollutant concentration. A diverse range of methods and strategies like bioaugmentation, biostimulation, bioventing, bioattenuation, etc. with their own merits and demerits are in use for the bioremediation process.

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    Ipsita Mohanty

  2. Institute of Post Harvest and Food Science, The Volcani Center, ARO, Rishon LeZion, Israel

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  1. Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. Division of Biotechnology, Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Mohanty, I., Rath, A. (2020). Bioremediation: Current Research Trends and Applications. In: Kashyap, B.K., Solanki, M.K., Kamboj, D.V., Pandey, A.K. (eds) Waste to Energy: Prospects and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4347-4_5

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