Research Catalog

Title

Microbial transformation and degradation of toxic organic chemicals / edited by Lily Y. Young, Carl E. Cerniglia.

Publication

New York : Wiley-Liss, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Young, Lily Y.
• Cerniglia, Carl.

Description

xii, 654 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Wiley series in ecological and applied microbiology

Uniform Title

Wiley series in ecological and applied microbiology.

Subjects

• Sanitary microbiology
• Bioremediation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Lily Y. Young and Carl E. Cerniglia -- 1. Microbial Versatility / Norberto J. Palleroni -- 2. Chemical Contamination of the Environment: Sources, Types, and Fate of Synthetic Organic Chemicals / Norbert G. Swoboda-Colberg -- 3. Cleanup of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination in Soil / Ingeborg D. Bossert and Geoffrey C. Compeau -- 4. Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Donna L. Bedard and John F. Quensen III -- 5. Bacterial Co-Metabolism of Halogenated Organic Compounds / Lawrence P. Wackett -- 6. The Microbial Ecology and Physiology of Aryl Dehalogenation Reactions and Implications for Bioremediation / Joseph M. Suflita and G. Todd Townsend -- 7. Mechanisms of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation / John B. Sutherland, Fatemeh Rafii, Ashraf A. Kahn and Carl E. Cerniglia --
• 8. Anaerobic Degradation of Nonhalogenated Homocyclic Aromatic Compounds Coupled with Nitrate, Iron, or Sulfate Reduction / Patricia J. S. Colberg and Lily Y. Young -- 9. Organopollutant Degradation by Ligninolytic Fungi / Kenneth E. Hammel -- 10. Microbiological Treatment of Chemical Process Wastewater / Laurence E. Hallas and Michael A. Heitkamp -- 11. Bioremediation of Chlorophenol Wastes / Max M. Haggblom and Risto J. Valo -- 12. Biological Treatment of Chlorinated Organics / Peter Adriaens and Timothy M. Vogel -- 13. Field Treatment of Coal Tar-Contaminated Soil Based on Results of Laboratory Treatability Studies / Margaret Findlay, Samuel Fogel, Lee Conway and Arthur Taddeo -- 14. In Situ Processes for Bioremediation of BTEX and Petroleum Fuel Products / Gene F. Bowlen and David S. Kosson -- 15. Degradative Genes in the Environment / Tamar Barkay, Sylvie Nazaret and Wade Jeffrey -- 16. Risk Assessment for Toxic Chemicals in the Environment / David W. Gaylor --
• 17. Hazardous Chemicals and Biotechnology: Past Successes and Future Promise / Burt D. Ensley and Mary F. DeFlaun.

ISBN

0471521094 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

95015401

OCLC

• 32348880
• ocm32348880

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries