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Microbial Degradation of Pollutants

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With the industrial development of the past hundred years, components and products from petroleum and coal have increasingly entered the environment. Other chemicals are released into the environment intentionally or partly unintentionally. Such pollutants are hydrocarbon, others are modified one such as chlorinated aromatics or aliphatics etc. The microbial degradation in the presence or absence of oxygen will be discussed for compounds such as alkanes, alkenes and cyclic alkanes, monoaromatic hydrocarbons, polynuclear hydrocarbons, chlorinated aromatics, hexachlorocyclohexane, triazines, chloroaliphatics, nitroaromatics , aromatic sulfonic acids and azo dyes, plastics, complexing agents, aminopolycarboxylic acids, endocrine active compounds, methyl tert-butyl ether and glyphosate. Mostly the respective degradative pathways were presented.

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Reineke, W., Schlömann, M. (2023). Microbial Degradation of Pollutants. In: Environmental Microbiology. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66547-3_6

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