This document summarizes various phytoremediation processes. Phytoremediation uses plants to remove contaminants from soil, water, or sediment. It includes processes like phytoextraction where plants absorb and concentrate contaminants, phytostabilization where plants reduce contaminant mobility and uptake, and phytotransformation where plants or associated microbes break down organic contaminants. Specific examples are given of plants used to remediate heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, and lead through phytoextraction. Processes like rhizodegradation, phytovolatilization, and rhizofiltration are also outlined. The document notes advantages of phytoremediation being more environmentally friendly and cost effective
This document discusses the use of white rot fungi in mycoremediation to degrade various xenobiotics and pollutants. It provides examples of studies using white rot fungi to degrade compounds such as phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dyes, and industrial effluents. White rot fungi produce extracellular enzymes like peroxidases and ligninases that can oxidize pollutants. Many fungal species have shown abilities to degrade persistent and toxic waste into less toxic or non-toxic forms. The document reviews the current state of research on mycoremediation using white rot fungi and their enzyme systems.
Phytostabilization refers to establishing a plant cover on the surface of the contaminated soils, which reduces their exposure to wind, water, and direct contact with humans or animals. Phytostabilization reduces the mobility, and therefore the risk, of inorganic contaminants without necessarily removing them from the site.
Importance of microorganisms in nutrient managementsanthiya kvs
The document discusses the important role of soil microorganisms in nutrient management and cycling. It explains that microbes are actively involved in decomposing organic matter, producing humus, and increasing the availability of nutrients like phosphorus. Certain microbes also support plant growth by producing vitamins, hormones, and stimulating natural defenses against pathogens. Microorganisms are key players in soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycles through processes like nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, and mineralization. The document also discusses different types of biofertilizers containing beneficial microbes.
The USEPA defines biodegradation as a process by which microbial organisms transform or alter (through metabolic or enzymatic action) the structure of chemicals introduced into the environment.
According to the definition by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the term biodegradation is “Breakdown of a substance catalyzed by enzymes in vitro or in vivo.
The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste management, biomedicine, and the natural environment (bioremediation) and is now commonly associated with environmentally friendly products that are capable of decomposing back into natural elements.
Biodegradable matter is generally organic material such as plant and animal matter and other substances originating from living organisms, or artificial materials that are similar enough to plant and animal matter to be put to use by microorganisms.
This document provides information about bioremediation. It begins with an introduction defining bioremediation as using microorganisms to degrade hazardous chemicals into less toxic forms. It then discusses the types of microorganisms involved, including Pseudomonas genus and Xenobiotics-degrading microorganisms. Several examples of pollutants and degrading microorganisms are given. The mechanisms of bioremediation include aerobic and anaerobic transformations such as respiration, fermentation, and methane fermentation. Factors affecting bioremediation like moisture, nutrients, oxygen levels, pH, temperature, and pollutant characteristics are outlined. Methods of bioremediation include in-situ and ex-situ techniques
This document discusses breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses like drought, salt, and cold in fruit crops. It provides information on the characteristics, effects, and mechanisms of different abiotic stresses. It also outlines strategies for breeding resistance, including selecting from cultivated varieties, landraces, and wild relatives. The key mechanisms of resistance include avoidance, tolerance, and acclimation. Traits like early maturity, reduced transpiration, and accumulating osmolytes can provide drought and salt resistance.
This document discusses commercial bioherbicides for weed control. It begins by outlining the problems caused by weeds in agriculture and the need for more sustainable weed control technologies. It then describes the three main types of weed control - mechanical, chemical, and biological. The document focuses on biological control, explaining what bioherbicides are and the process of discovering, developing, mass producing, formulating, and applying them. It provides examples of commercially registered bioherbicides and concludes by stating that bioherbicides are typically narrow-spectrum and intended to be used as part of integrated weed management.
This document summarizes various phytoremediation processes. Phytoremediation uses plants to remove contaminants from soil, water, or sediment. It includes processes like phytoextraction where plants absorb and concentrate contaminants, phytostabilization where plants reduce contaminant mobility and uptake, and phytotransformation where plants or associated microbes break down organic contaminants. Specific examples are given of plants used to remediate heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, and lead through phytoextraction. Processes like rhizodegradation, phytovolatilization, and rhizofiltration are also outlined. The document notes advantages of phytoremediation being more environmentally friendly and cost effective
This document discusses the use of white rot fungi in mycoremediation to degrade various xenobiotics and pollutants. It provides examples of studies using white rot fungi to degrade compounds such as phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dyes, and industrial effluents. White rot fungi produce extracellular enzymes like peroxidases and ligninases that can oxidize pollutants. Many fungal species have shown abilities to degrade persistent and toxic waste into less toxic or non-toxic forms. The document reviews the current state of research on mycoremediation using white rot fungi and their enzyme systems.
Phytostabilization refers to establishing a plant cover on the surface of the contaminated soils, which reduces their exposure to wind, water, and direct contact with humans or animals. Phytostabilization reduces the mobility, and therefore the risk, of inorganic contaminants without necessarily removing them from the site.
Importance of microorganisms in nutrient managementsanthiya kvs
The document discusses the important role of soil microorganisms in nutrient management and cycling. It explains that microbes are actively involved in decomposing organic matter, producing humus, and increasing the availability of nutrients like phosphorus. Certain microbes also support plant growth by producing vitamins, hormones, and stimulating natural defenses against pathogens. Microorganisms are key players in soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycles through processes like nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, and mineralization. The document also discusses different types of biofertilizers containing beneficial microbes.
The USEPA defines biodegradation as a process by which microbial organisms transform or alter (through metabolic or enzymatic action) the structure of chemicals introduced into the environment.
According to the definition by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the term biodegradation is “Breakdown of a substance catalyzed by enzymes in vitro or in vivo.
The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste management, biomedicine, and the natural environment (bioremediation) and is now commonly associated with environmentally friendly products that are capable of decomposing back into natural elements.
Biodegradable matter is generally organic material such as plant and animal matter and other substances originating from living organisms, or artificial materials that are similar enough to plant and animal matter to be put to use by microorganisms.
This document provides information about bioremediation. It begins with an introduction defining bioremediation as using microorganisms to degrade hazardous chemicals into less toxic forms. It then discusses the types of microorganisms involved, including Pseudomonas genus and Xenobiotics-degrading microorganisms. Several examples of pollutants and degrading microorganisms are given. The mechanisms of bioremediation include aerobic and anaerobic transformations such as respiration, fermentation, and methane fermentation. Factors affecting bioremediation like moisture, nutrients, oxygen levels, pH, temperature, and pollutant characteristics are outlined. Methods of bioremediation include in-situ and ex-situ techniques
This document discusses breeding for resistance to abiotic stresses like drought, salt, and cold in fruit crops. It provides information on the characteristics, effects, and mechanisms of different abiotic stresses. It also outlines strategies for breeding resistance, including selecting from cultivated varieties, landraces, and wild relatives. The key mechanisms of resistance include avoidance, tolerance, and acclimation. Traits like early maturity, reduced transpiration, and accumulating osmolytes can provide drought and salt resistance.
This document discusses commercial bioherbicides for weed control. It begins by outlining the problems caused by weeds in agriculture and the need for more sustainable weed control technologies. It then describes the three main types of weed control - mechanical, chemical, and biological. The document focuses on biological control, explaining what bioherbicides are and the process of discovering, developing, mass producing, formulating, and applying them. It provides examples of commercially registered bioherbicides and concludes by stating that bioherbicides are typically narrow-spectrum and intended to be used as part of integrated weed management.
This document discusses bioremediation and phytoremediation. It defines bioremediation as using microorganisms, fungi or plants to return a contaminated environment to its original condition. Phytoremediation specifically uses green plants. Methods include using bacteria to decompose oil spills or degrade chlorinated hydrocarbons. Bioremediation works by microbes breaking down hazardous substances into less toxic forms. It has advantages like lower cost than traditional methods and preserving the natural environment. However, some chemicals are not readily biodegradable and factors like nutrients, moisture and temperature must be considered.
Bioremediation uses living organisms like microbes and plants to degrade environmental pollutants into less toxic or non-toxic substances. Key bioremediation strategies include adding genetically engineered microbes, using indigenous microbes, biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and phytoremediation using plants. Bioremediation aims to break down pollutants so they are undetectable or at safe concentrations set by regulatory agencies. New techniques include using chelates to help plants extract heavy metals from soil or microbes that can transform toxic chromium VI into less toxic chromium III.
This document discusses various strategies for pollution mitigation through bioremediation. It begins with an introduction to bioremediation and outlines different bioremediation strategies including in situ and ex situ approaches. In situ bioremediation strategies discussed include intrinsic bioremediation, bioventing, biosparging, and bioaugmentation. Ex situ strategies include composting, land farming, and biopile systems. The document also discusses factors that influence bioremediation effectiveness such as microorganisms, environmental conditions, and contaminant type. It provides examples of contaminants that are bio-degradable, partially degradable, and recalcitrant.
This document discusses abiotic stress in plants. It defines plant stress and describes how environmental factors like water deficit, salinity, temperature extremes, and mineral deficiencies can stress plants. It explains how plants acclimate and adapt to stress through physiological and morphological changes. The document outlines various stress sensing, signaling pathways and hormonal responses in plants, as well as developmental and antioxidant mechanisms that help protect plants from abiotic stress. Developing crop varieties with enhanced stress tolerance is an important goal.
Bio degradation of pesticides and herbicides aakvd
Microorganisms play a major role in biodegrading pesticides and herbicides in soil. Various bacteria, fungi, and other microbes secrete enzymes and metabolites that can break down these chemicals into less toxic compounds. The rate of biodegradation depends on genetic and environmental factors. Common strategies to enhance pesticide and herbicide degradation include biostimulation, bioaugmentation, composting, and phytoremediation. Examples are provided of specific microorganisms involved in degrading pesticides like DDT, lindane, malathion, and various herbicides.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms to return contaminated environments to their original condition. There are two main types: in situ bioremediation, which cleans up contamination on site, and ex situ bioremediation, which removes waste for off-site treatment. In situ bioremediation can occur intrinsically or be engineered through additions like fertilizers or microbes. Ex situ approaches include solid phase treatments like composting of wastes or slurry phase treatments where contaminated materials are mixed into liquid in bioreactors. Key factors that affect bioremediation include moisture, pH, temperature, nutrients, contaminant concentration, and microbial populations.
Phytoremediation uses plants to remove, detoxify, or immobilize environmental pollutants like metals and organic compounds from soil and water. It works through natural processes of plants like absorption, accumulation, precipitation, volatilization, and stimulation of degrading microbes. Common mechanisms include phytoextraction, phytostabilization, phytotransformation, phytostimulation, and rhizofiltration. While cost-effective and environmentally friendly, phytoremediation is slow and not suitable for highly contaminated sites. Plant species are chosen based on their ability to uptake and process contaminants as well as adapt to soil and climate conditions.
A bioindicator is any an "indicator species" or group of species whose function, population, or status reveal the qualitative status of the environment.
This document discusses various engineering strategies for bioremediation. It begins by outlining the importance of site characterization, pollutant characterization, and geohydrochemical characterization. It then discusses approaches like biotreatability tests, bioaugmentation, biopiling, biosparging, and different ex-situ techniques like land farming and composting. The key factors that affect bioremediation like nutrient requirements, oxygen supply, and mass transfer are also summarized.
Control of pollution by genetically engineered microorganismsSamar Biswas
Pollution refers to the presence of a substance or substances in the environment that are harmful or toxic. The substances or pollutants may be harmful to human health, other animals, and plants. When something harmful enters the environment at a faster rate that it can be dispersed, there is pollution.
Mechanism of aerobic & an aerobic biodegradation07sudha
The document discusses the mechanisms of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation. It explains that aerobic biodegradation breaks down organic contaminants using oxygen, while anaerobic biodegradation occurs without oxygen. The key stages of anaerobic biodegradation are hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis, and methanogenesis. It also compares aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, noting that aerobic is faster but anaerobic produces less waste. Various microorganisms involved in each process are also identified.
This document discusses bioremediation, which uses microorganisms to degrade environmental pollutants. It defines bioremediation and describes how it works to break down hazardous substances. There are three main types of bioremediation: biostimulation adds nutrients to stimulate microbial growth; bioaugmentation adds microbes to degrade specific contaminants; and intrinsic bioremediation relies on natural attenuation. Methods of bioremediation include in-situ and ex-situ approaches. In-situ techniques like bioventing treat pollution on-site, while ex-situ methods involve removing material to above-ground bioreactors for treatment. Bioremediation has applications in controlling water, soil and air
The document discusses bioremediation techniques for treating fish processing waste. It provides background on the large quantities of solid waste and wastewater generated by fish processing plants. Both aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation techniques can be used, including intrinsic and accelerated bioremediation which use indigenous or added microorganisms. Specific in situ techniques mentioned are bioventing, biostimulation, and bioaugmentation. Essential factors for effective microbial bioremediation include suitable microbial populations, oxygen, water, nutrients, temperature, and pH. Bioremediation is seen as a cost effective and environmentally friendly way to treat fish processing waste and other pollutants.
In this presentation, I would like to provide the Resistance Mechanism and Molecular Responses to the Salinity.
There are two types of plants Halophytes and Glycophytes (categories on the basis of their responses to the salinity) examples are Thellungiella halophila and Arabidopsis thaliana, respectively.
Earlier Arabidopsis was considered as Model organism incase of plants but it can't tolerate high saline condition that's the reason for the limited study of plant towards salinity responses. But in the year 2004 the discovery of new plant Thellungiella halophila generates new knowledge about the tolerance mechanism of plants towards salinity responses because it's a halophytes which can tolerate extreme saline condition.
And also it has very similarity with the Arabidopsis so it's considered as the Model organism for the study of Salt stress physiology.
There are major two pathways involved in response to Salt stress (described in presentation).
The document discusses the mineralization of organic nitrogen in soil through three processes: aminization, ammonification, and nitrification. Aminization and ammonification are anaerobic processes mediated by heterotrophic bacteria that convert organic nitrogen into ammonia. Nitrification is an aerobic process mediated by autotrophic bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite and nitrite to nitrate. Key factors that affect the rates of these processes include soil aeration, moisture, temperature, pH, and the carbon to nitrogen ratio.
This document discusses somatic hybridization, which is the fusion of isolated plant protoplasts in vitro to form a hybrid cell that can develop into a hybrid plant. It involves fusing protoplasts using various methods like PEG treatment or electric fusion. Hybrid cells are then selected using techniques like drug resistance, flow cytometry or visual inspection. The document provides details on the steps of protoplast fusion, mechanisms of fusion, and selection of hybrid cells.
Being sessile, plants are constantly exposed to changes in temperature and other abiotic stress factors. The temperature stress experienced by plants can be classified into three types: those occurring at (a) temperature below freezing (b) low temperature above freezing and (c) high temperature. The plants must adapt to them in other ways. The biological substances that are deeply related to these stresses, such as heat shock proteins, glycine betaine as a compatible solute, membrane lipids etc.and also detoxifiers of active oxygen species, contribute to temperature stress tolerance in plants. Rapid advances in Molecular Genetic approaches have enabled genes to be cloned, both from prokaryotes and directly from plants themselves, that are thought to provide the key to the mechanism of temperature adaptation (Iba et al., 2002).
The accumulation of heat shock proteins under the control of heat stress transcription factors is assumed to play a central role in the heat stress response and in acquired thermotolerance in plants (Kotak et al., 2007). The pattern of protein synthesis during cold acclimation is very dissimilar to the heat shock proteins in many ways. Different low temperature stress proteins, such as Anti-freeze proteins or thermal hysteresis proteins (THPs) and cold shock domain proteins etc. are accumulated in plant cell and are frequently correlated with enhanced cold tolerance ( Guy, 1999).
The heat stress-induced dehydrin proteins (DHNs) expression and their relationship with the water relations of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) leaves were studied to investigate the adaptation to heat stress in plants (Wahid and Close, 2007). In order to get an in vitro evidence of Hsc70 functioning as a molecular chaperone during cold stress, a cold-inducible spinach cytosolic Hsc70 was subcloned into a protein expression vector and the recombinant protein was expressed in bacterial cells. Results suggest that the molecular chaperone Hsc70 may have a functional role in plants during low temperature stress (Zhang and Guy, 2006). To analyze the least and most strongly interacting stress with Hsps and Hsfs, a transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis Hsps and Hsfs has been done (Swindell et al., 2007).
As plants receive complex of stress factors together, therefore in future research, emphasis should be placed on such cases where tolerance is attempted to different stress factors simultaneously by employing sophisticated techniques.
This document discusses biofertilizers, which are products containing living microorganisms that can fix atmospheric nitrogen or solubilize soil phosphorus, making it available to plants. It classifies biofertilizers as nitrogen-fixing or phosphorus-solubilizing. Some major nitrogen-fixing biofertilizers discussed are Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, and blue-green algae. Phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms include Bacillus and Pseudomonas. Biofertilizers are applied through seed treatment, root inoculation, or soil application. They provide nutrients to plants, improve soil health, and can replace some chemical fertilizers in a
The document discusses bioremediation, which uses microorganisms to break down environmental pollutants and clean contaminated sites. It describes different types of bioremediation including microbial remediation, which uses bacteria and fungi, and phytoremediation, which uses plants. The goals, methods, applications, advantages and limitations of bioremediation are summarized. Key bioremediation techniques mentioned are bioventing, land-farming, bioaugmentation, and biopiles.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms to break down hazardous substances into less toxic forms. There are two main techniques: in-situ treats contaminated soil and groundwater in place without excavation, while ex-situ excavates soil prior to treatment using methods like biopiles, bioreactors, land farming, and windrows that optimize conditions for microorganisms. The document discusses various enhanced bioremediation methods for both in-situ and ex-situ treatment.
Microbes involved in aerobic and anaerobic process in natureDharshinipriyaJanaki
This document provides an overview of microbes involved in aerobic and anaerobic processes in nature. It discusses bioremediation, the bioremediation cycle, biodegradation, and the roles of various microorganisms. Bioremediation uses microorganisms to break down environmental pollutants. The bioremediation cycle involves microbes consuming contaminants and converting them into harmless substances. Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microbes. Various microbes are involved in aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation processes to break down contaminants.
This document discusses bioremediation and phytoremediation. It defines bioremediation as using microorganisms, fungi or plants to return a contaminated environment to its original condition. Phytoremediation specifically uses green plants. Methods include using bacteria to decompose oil spills or degrade chlorinated hydrocarbons. Bioremediation works by microbes breaking down hazardous substances into less toxic forms. It has advantages like lower cost than traditional methods and preserving the natural environment. However, some chemicals are not readily biodegradable and factors like nutrients, moisture and temperature must be considered.
Bioremediation uses living organisms like microbes and plants to degrade environmental pollutants into less toxic or non-toxic substances. Key bioremediation strategies include adding genetically engineered microbes, using indigenous microbes, biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and phytoremediation using plants. Bioremediation aims to break down pollutants so they are undetectable or at safe concentrations set by regulatory agencies. New techniques include using chelates to help plants extract heavy metals from soil or microbes that can transform toxic chromium VI into less toxic chromium III.
This document discusses various strategies for pollution mitigation through bioremediation. It begins with an introduction to bioremediation and outlines different bioremediation strategies including in situ and ex situ approaches. In situ bioremediation strategies discussed include intrinsic bioremediation, bioventing, biosparging, and bioaugmentation. Ex situ strategies include composting, land farming, and biopile systems. The document also discusses factors that influence bioremediation effectiveness such as microorganisms, environmental conditions, and contaminant type. It provides examples of contaminants that are bio-degradable, partially degradable, and recalcitrant.
This document discusses abiotic stress in plants. It defines plant stress and describes how environmental factors like water deficit, salinity, temperature extremes, and mineral deficiencies can stress plants. It explains how plants acclimate and adapt to stress through physiological and morphological changes. The document outlines various stress sensing, signaling pathways and hormonal responses in plants, as well as developmental and antioxidant mechanisms that help protect plants from abiotic stress. Developing crop varieties with enhanced stress tolerance is an important goal.
Bio degradation of pesticides and herbicides aakvd
Microorganisms play a major role in biodegrading pesticides and herbicides in soil. Various bacteria, fungi, and other microbes secrete enzymes and metabolites that can break down these chemicals into less toxic compounds. The rate of biodegradation depends on genetic and environmental factors. Common strategies to enhance pesticide and herbicide degradation include biostimulation, bioaugmentation, composting, and phytoremediation. Examples are provided of specific microorganisms involved in degrading pesticides like DDT, lindane, malathion, and various herbicides.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms to return contaminated environments to their original condition. There are two main types: in situ bioremediation, which cleans up contamination on site, and ex situ bioremediation, which removes waste for off-site treatment. In situ bioremediation can occur intrinsically or be engineered through additions like fertilizers or microbes. Ex situ approaches include solid phase treatments like composting of wastes or slurry phase treatments where contaminated materials are mixed into liquid in bioreactors. Key factors that affect bioremediation include moisture, pH, temperature, nutrients, contaminant concentration, and microbial populations.
Phytoremediation uses plants to remove, detoxify, or immobilize environmental pollutants like metals and organic compounds from soil and water. It works through natural processes of plants like absorption, accumulation, precipitation, volatilization, and stimulation of degrading microbes. Common mechanisms include phytoextraction, phytostabilization, phytotransformation, phytostimulation, and rhizofiltration. While cost-effective and environmentally friendly, phytoremediation is slow and not suitable for highly contaminated sites. Plant species are chosen based on their ability to uptake and process contaminants as well as adapt to soil and climate conditions.
A bioindicator is any an "indicator species" or group of species whose function, population, or status reveal the qualitative status of the environment.
This document discusses various engineering strategies for bioremediation. It begins by outlining the importance of site characterization, pollutant characterization, and geohydrochemical characterization. It then discusses approaches like biotreatability tests, bioaugmentation, biopiling, biosparging, and different ex-situ techniques like land farming and composting. The key factors that affect bioremediation like nutrient requirements, oxygen supply, and mass transfer are also summarized.
Control of pollution by genetically engineered microorganismsSamar Biswas
Pollution refers to the presence of a substance or substances in the environment that are harmful or toxic. The substances or pollutants may be harmful to human health, other animals, and plants. When something harmful enters the environment at a faster rate that it can be dispersed, there is pollution.
Mechanism of aerobic & an aerobic biodegradation07sudha
The document discusses the mechanisms of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation. It explains that aerobic biodegradation breaks down organic contaminants using oxygen, while anaerobic biodegradation occurs without oxygen. The key stages of anaerobic biodegradation are hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis, and methanogenesis. It also compares aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, noting that aerobic is faster but anaerobic produces less waste. Various microorganisms involved in each process are also identified.
This document discusses bioremediation, which uses microorganisms to degrade environmental pollutants. It defines bioremediation and describes how it works to break down hazardous substances. There are three main types of bioremediation: biostimulation adds nutrients to stimulate microbial growth; bioaugmentation adds microbes to degrade specific contaminants; and intrinsic bioremediation relies on natural attenuation. Methods of bioremediation include in-situ and ex-situ approaches. In-situ techniques like bioventing treat pollution on-site, while ex-situ methods involve removing material to above-ground bioreactors for treatment. Bioremediation has applications in controlling water, soil and air
The document discusses bioremediation techniques for treating fish processing waste. It provides background on the large quantities of solid waste and wastewater generated by fish processing plants. Both aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation techniques can be used, including intrinsic and accelerated bioremediation which use indigenous or added microorganisms. Specific in situ techniques mentioned are bioventing, biostimulation, and bioaugmentation. Essential factors for effective microbial bioremediation include suitable microbial populations, oxygen, water, nutrients, temperature, and pH. Bioremediation is seen as a cost effective and environmentally friendly way to treat fish processing waste and other pollutants.
In this presentation, I would like to provide the Resistance Mechanism and Molecular Responses to the Salinity.
There are two types of plants Halophytes and Glycophytes (categories on the basis of their responses to the salinity) examples are Thellungiella halophila and Arabidopsis thaliana, respectively.
Earlier Arabidopsis was considered as Model organism incase of plants but it can't tolerate high saline condition that's the reason for the limited study of plant towards salinity responses. But in the year 2004 the discovery of new plant Thellungiella halophila generates new knowledge about the tolerance mechanism of plants towards salinity responses because it's a halophytes which can tolerate extreme saline condition.
And also it has very similarity with the Arabidopsis so it's considered as the Model organism for the study of Salt stress physiology.
There are major two pathways involved in response to Salt stress (described in presentation).
The document discusses the mineralization of organic nitrogen in soil through three processes: aminization, ammonification, and nitrification. Aminization and ammonification are anaerobic processes mediated by heterotrophic bacteria that convert organic nitrogen into ammonia. Nitrification is an aerobic process mediated by autotrophic bacteria that converts ammonia to nitrite and nitrite to nitrate. Key factors that affect the rates of these processes include soil aeration, moisture, temperature, pH, and the carbon to nitrogen ratio.
This document discusses somatic hybridization, which is the fusion of isolated plant protoplasts in vitro to form a hybrid cell that can develop into a hybrid plant. It involves fusing protoplasts using various methods like PEG treatment or electric fusion. Hybrid cells are then selected using techniques like drug resistance, flow cytometry or visual inspection. The document provides details on the steps of protoplast fusion, mechanisms of fusion, and selection of hybrid cells.
Being sessile, plants are constantly exposed to changes in temperature and other abiotic stress factors. The temperature stress experienced by plants can be classified into three types: those occurring at (a) temperature below freezing (b) low temperature above freezing and (c) high temperature. The plants must adapt to them in other ways. The biological substances that are deeply related to these stresses, such as heat shock proteins, glycine betaine as a compatible solute, membrane lipids etc.and also detoxifiers of active oxygen species, contribute to temperature stress tolerance in plants. Rapid advances in Molecular Genetic approaches have enabled genes to be cloned, both from prokaryotes and directly from plants themselves, that are thought to provide the key to the mechanism of temperature adaptation (Iba et al., 2002).
The accumulation of heat shock proteins under the control of heat stress transcription factors is assumed to play a central role in the heat stress response and in acquired thermotolerance in plants (Kotak et al., 2007). The pattern of protein synthesis during cold acclimation is very dissimilar to the heat shock proteins in many ways. Different low temperature stress proteins, such as Anti-freeze proteins or thermal hysteresis proteins (THPs) and cold shock domain proteins etc. are accumulated in plant cell and are frequently correlated with enhanced cold tolerance ( Guy, 1999).
The heat stress-induced dehydrin proteins (DHNs) expression and their relationship with the water relations of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) leaves were studied to investigate the adaptation to heat stress in plants (Wahid and Close, 2007). In order to get an in vitro evidence of Hsc70 functioning as a molecular chaperone during cold stress, a cold-inducible spinach cytosolic Hsc70 was subcloned into a protein expression vector and the recombinant protein was expressed in bacterial cells. Results suggest that the molecular chaperone Hsc70 may have a functional role in plants during low temperature stress (Zhang and Guy, 2006). To analyze the least and most strongly interacting stress with Hsps and Hsfs, a transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis Hsps and Hsfs has been done (Swindell et al., 2007).
As plants receive complex of stress factors together, therefore in future research, emphasis should be placed on such cases where tolerance is attempted to different stress factors simultaneously by employing sophisticated techniques.
This document discusses biofertilizers, which are products containing living microorganisms that can fix atmospheric nitrogen or solubilize soil phosphorus, making it available to plants. It classifies biofertilizers as nitrogen-fixing or phosphorus-solubilizing. Some major nitrogen-fixing biofertilizers discussed are Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, and blue-green algae. Phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms include Bacillus and Pseudomonas. Biofertilizers are applied through seed treatment, root inoculation, or soil application. They provide nutrients to plants, improve soil health, and can replace some chemical fertilizers in a
The document discusses bioremediation, which uses microorganisms to break down environmental pollutants and clean contaminated sites. It describes different types of bioremediation including microbial remediation, which uses bacteria and fungi, and phytoremediation, which uses plants. The goals, methods, applications, advantages and limitations of bioremediation are summarized. Key bioremediation techniques mentioned are bioventing, land-farming, bioaugmentation, and biopiles.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms to break down hazardous substances into less toxic forms. There are two main techniques: in-situ treats contaminated soil and groundwater in place without excavation, while ex-situ excavates soil prior to treatment using methods like biopiles, bioreactors, land farming, and windrows that optimize conditions for microorganisms. The document discusses various enhanced bioremediation methods for both in-situ and ex-situ treatment.
Microbes involved in aerobic and anaerobic process in natureDharshinipriyaJanaki
This document provides an overview of microbes involved in aerobic and anaerobic processes in nature. It discusses bioremediation, the bioremediation cycle, biodegradation, and the roles of various microorganisms. Bioremediation uses microorganisms to break down environmental pollutants. The bioremediation cycle involves microbes consuming contaminants and converting them into harmless substances. Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microbes. Various microbes are involved in aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation processes to break down contaminants.
Microbes as Biocontrol Agents & Biofertilizers.pdfVishnuKannan19
Microbes can be used as bio-control agents and bio-fertilizers to provide benefits over chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Bio-control uses microbes like fungi, bacteria, and viruses to control pests in a targeted manner. Bacillus thuringiensis produces crystal proteins that are toxic to insect orders like Lepidoptera and act by paralyzing the insect's digestive tract. Biofertilizers contain living microorganisms like Rhizobium bacteria that form symbiotic relationships with plant roots to fix atmospheric nitrogen into an organic form accessible to plants. Organic farming utilizes these biological methods to maintain soil fertility and ecological balance while avoiding synthetic substances.
This document discusses different types of bioremediation including microbial, phytoremediation, and mycoremediation bioremediation. It also outlines principles of bioremediation like natural attenuation, biostimulation, and bioaugmentation. Specific techniques are explained such as in situ bioremediation methods like bioventing and bioslurry and ex situ methods including land farming, biopiles, and bioreactors.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms to break down contaminants in soil and water. There are three main types: biostimulation adds nutrients to encourage microbial growth; bioaugmentation adds microbes that degrade specific contaminants; and intrinsic bioremediation relies on naturally occurring microbes. Microbes metabolize contaminants through anabolism and catabolism, using contaminants for energy and building cell structures. Factors like microbial populations, contaminant availability, temperature, and nutrients influence bioremediation effectiveness.
This document discusses bioinoculants, which are beneficial soil microbes used to promote plant growth. It defines bioinoculants and microbial inoculants, and explains that they are important for sustainable agriculture by reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. The document then describes the different types of relationships microbes can have with plants and lists various microbes used as inoculants, including nitrogen fixers, phosphate solubilizers, biocontrol agents, and biopesticides. It outlines the key benefits inoculants provide plants and soils, such as improving nutrition, stimulating growth, and suppressing pathogens. Finally, it notes that bioinoculants have advantages over chemical fertilizers in that they are less harmful
This document discusses bioremediation, which uses living organisms like microbes and plants to break down and consume environmental pollutants. It can be done through microbial remediation using intrinsic or engineered microbes, or phyto-remediation using plants. Methods include in-situ techniques like bioventing and biosparging as well as ex-situ ones like biopiles and landfarming. While bioremediation is natural and can control pollution, it is limited to biodegradable wastes and specific processes, and ex-situ methods may disperse pollutants.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi to degrade environmental pollutants into less toxic or non-toxic substances. It can occur naturally or be induced through bioaugmentation, which involves adding specific microorganisms, or biostimulation, which provides nutrients to promote the growth of indigenous microbes. Effective bioremediation requires the microbes, pollutants, and environmental conditions to allow the microbes to break down pollutants through their metabolic processes.
Bioremediation
Bioremediation refers to the use of either naturally occurring or
deliberately introduced microorganisms to consume and break down
environmental pollutants, in order to clean a polluted site.
The process of bioremediation enhances the rate of the natural
microbial degradation of contaminants by supplementing the
indigenous microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) with nutrients, carbon
sources, or electron donors (biostimulation, biorestoration) or by
adding an enriched culture of microorganisms that have specific
characteristics that allow them to degrade the desired contaminant at
a quicker rate (bioaugmentation).
It is a cleaning process that degrades dangerous contaminants using
naturally existing microbes. These bacteria may consume and
degrade organic chemicals as a source of food and energy, degrade
organic substances that are dangerous to living creatures, including
humans, and degrade the organic pollutants into inert products.
Because the bacteria already exist in nature, they offer no pollution
concern
Bioremediation is the use of
microorganisms or microbial processes
to detoxify and degrade environmental
contaminants.
Microorganisms have been used for the
routine treatment and transformation
of waste products for several decades
Bioremediation strategies rely on
having the correct microorganisms in
the right location at the right time in the
right environment for degradation to
occur. The appropriate microorganisms
are bacteria and fungi that have the
physiological and metabolic
competence to breakdown pollutants
Objective of Bioremediation
The objective of bioremediation is to decrease pollutant levels to
undetectable, nontoxic, or acceptable levels, i.e., within regulatory
limits, or, ideally, to totally mineralize organopollutants to carbon
dioxide
BIOREMEDIATION AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN ENVIRONMENT
PROTECTION
Bioremediation is defined as ‘the process of using microorganisms to remove
the environmental pollutants where microbes serve as scavengers’.
• The removal of organic wastes by microbes leads to environmental clean-up.
The other names/terms used for bioremediation are biotreatment,
bioreclamation, and biorestoration.
• The term “Xenobiotics” (xenos means foreign) refers to the unnatural, foreign
and synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides, herbicides, refrigerants, solvents
and other organic compounds.
• The microbial degradation of xenobiotics also helps in reducing the
environmental pollution. Pseudomonas which is a soil microorganism
effectively degrades xenobiotics.
• Different strains of Pseudomonas that are capable of detoxifying more than
100 organic compounds (e.g. phenols, biphenyls, organophosphates,
naphthalene, etc.) have been identified.
• Some other microbial strains are also known to have the capacity to degrade
xenobiotics such as Mycobacterium, Alcaligenes, Norcardia, etc.
Factors affecting biodegradation
The factors that affect the
biodegradation are:
• the chemical nature of
xenobiotics,
• the conc
This document provides an overview of bioremediation, which uses microorganisms to degrade hazardous substances in the environment. It defines bioremediation as using organisms or their enzymes to return polluted areas to their original condition. The document outlines different types of bioremediation technologies, factors that affect bioremediation like microbial populations, environmental conditions and contaminant availability. It also explains how microbes metabolize contaminants through anabolic and catabolic processes to gain energy, and how biostimulation provides nutrients to indigenous microbes to degrade site contaminants.
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Bioaugmentation is the process of adding microorganisms to contaminated environments to degrade pollutants more quickly and efficiently. There are two main types: in situ bioaugmentation involves adding microbes directly to contaminated soil or groundwater, while ex situ bioaugmentation treats excavated contaminated materials outside of their natural environment. Both approaches can be effective but also have disadvantages like chemical alterations to the environment or high costs of ex situ methods. The document provides details on various bioaugmentation techniques and their applications in bioremediation.
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Microalgae as biofertilizers are major enhancing soil fertility and quality. Microalgae can create plant growth hormones, Polysaccharides, antibacterial chemicals and other metabolites.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms like bacteria and fungi to degrade contaminants in soil and water. It works by stimulating natural microbial activity to break down harmful pollutants into harmless substances. Various technologies can be used including treating excavated soil in biopiles or bioreactors, injecting nutrients and oxygen into contaminated groundwater and soil, and planting vegetation that helps remove toxins from the environment. The microbes metabolize the pollutants for food and energy through aerobic or anaerobic processes, transforming contaminants into less toxic or non-toxic forms.
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Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
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massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
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because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
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the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
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Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
3. HOW IT WORKS
Microbes release enzymes and it degrade the
contaminant..
Conventional……..
Microbes
attack only
one side of
contaminant
, leads to
slower and
less
effective
remediation
6. BIOREMEDIATION
• Bioremediation is a process of removing or degrading
the toxic pollutant from the environment by using
microorganism .
• commonly used micro organisms are,
Flavobacterium,Arthrobacter, and Azotobacter
• Bioremediation focuses on different sources they
are called as different names.
plant------------- phytoremediation
fungi------------- mycoremediation
7. STRTEGIES
GMO”s
Use of indigenous microorganism
Bio stimulation
Bio augmentation
Phyto remediation
8. GENE MANIPULATION
Gene responsible for the degradation of
pollutant is introduced and expressed in
bacteria e.g.
Gene opd of flavobacterium which is
responsible for the degradation of
carbonats is introduced in the fungi ,
Gliocladium virens, who express the
gene.
9. GENE MANIPULATION
Enterobacter agglomerans , containing
plasmids RP-4 encodes for biophenyl
degradation
This strain when added to soil it
disappear quickly but plasmid is
transferred to the microbes , which carry
out the process of biophenyl
degradation
10. Use of indigenous micro
organism
Soil harbours a number of microorganisms with
degradative potential
Microbes are ubiquitous in distribution
The have developed enzymatic systems to tackle
environmental contaminants
11. USE OF INDIGENOUS micro organism
Cyanobacteria and algae – hydrocarbons
Pseudomonas putida – can degrade benzoate completely
13. BIOSTIMULATION
Biostimulation is the stimulation of indigenous
microbial growth by providing them with
necessary nutrients
Principle :
Microbes cannot use pollutants as a sole
source of energy. Hence they need to be
provided with other essential nutrients
14. BIOAUGMENTATION
Bioaugmentation is addition of selected
organisms to the contaminated site in order to
supplement indigenous microbial population
and speed up degradation
Bioaugmentation has been successfully
carried out by using activated soil rather
than pure cultures
Activated soil – soil containing indigenous
microbial population recently exposed to
contaminants
17. PHYTOREMEDIATION
Phytoremediation is the use of plants for the removal of
contaminants and metals from the soil and water, or to
render them harmless
It is basically the decontamination or stabilization of the
polluted area using plants
21. Conclusion
Bioremediation, the
process whereby natural
degradation rates are
accelerated through
stimulation of indigenous
microorganisms is an
effective ecologically and
economically effective
reclamation alternative