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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the importance of molecular genomics and molecular biology techniques used to sort out the problems faced by industrialists who operate wastewater treatment plants with the ever-increasing number of environmental pollutants, through an approach of microbial community analysis. Current knowledge of the microbial communities within biological wastewater treatment reactors is incomplete due to limitations of traditional culture-based techniques and despite the emergence of recently applied physico-chemical and biological techniques. This book will give a complete overview about an advanced molecular technology for microbial community analysis of a wastewater treatment reactor to understand and gain proper knowledge, which may help to ultimately sort out the issue of environmental pollutants. It will give an insight about an application of various molecular tools to investigate microbial community composition or structure in activated sludge processes.
Table of ContentsPreface; Proteomics: A Novel Tool for Studying Environmental Microbial Communities; Developments in Environmental Microbiology and Biodegradation/Biotransformation of Persistent Pollutants in Activated Sludge Population: A Case Study on Renewability of Activated Sludge Exposed to a New Generation Nanoparticular Photocatalyst; Soil Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change; Metagenomics: A Powerful Lens for Viewing the Microbial World; Discovering Unexplored Microbial Communities and Decoding DNA Sequences through Metagenomics Study; Insights into the Diversity of Microbial Communities and Their Role in Pollutant Degradation in Various Activated Sludge Systems; Index.
