ena-STUDY-NCKU-16-09-2013-12:10:47:401-78
Pyrosequencing analysis of Soil Consortia Degrading Octachlorodibenzofuran
Although highly chlorinated dioxins are xenobiotic and toxic pollutants, they could be rapidly degraded in a hypoxic microcosm. The development of such bioremediation approaches requires an understanding of the microbial community structure; however, this is insufficiently addressed in previous studies. To fill this knowledge gap, we pyrosequenced the V4/V5 regions of the 16S rRNA gene to study the development of bacterial communities transited from the soil of a chronological site contaminated with chlorinated dioxins to batch microcosms in rapidly degrading high concentrations of octachlorodibenzofuran (OCDF).
Although highly chlorinated dioxins are xenobiotic and toxic pollutants, they could be rapidly degraded in a hypoxic microcosm. The development of such bioremediation approaches requires an understanding of the microbial community structure; however, this is insufficiently addressed in previous studies. To fill this knowledge gap, we pyrosequenced the V4/V5 regions of the 16S rRNA gene to study the development of bacterial communities transited from the soil of a chronological site contaminated with chlorinated dioxins to batch microcosms in rapidly degrading high concentrations of octachlorodibenzofuran (OCDF).