Authors : R. L. Meshram and S. R.Wate
Page Nos : 274-287
Description :
Due to worldwide environmental problem associated with contamination of PAH and their products there is always scope to isolate the bacterial consortia able to degrade PAH. Naphthalene, a model compound representing PAH selected for this purpose. The present work describes the isolation, characterization and naphthalene degradation potential of microbial consortia isolated from contaminated soil of oil depot, Nagpur, India. We also detected the presence of some metabolites thereby indicating the possible fate of degradation of naphthalene by isolated bacterium.
