biological methods based on using soil beneficial microorganisms’ potentials for creating symbiosis relationship with plants by modifying genetic structure of plants resulting in improving nutritional status and crops quality. this study was conducted in order to investigate the effect of piriformospora indica inoculation on root colonization and uptake and transportation of phosphorus, zinc an...

Phosphorus is a key biologic element, and a prebiotic pathway leading to its incorporation into biomolecules has been difficult to ascertain. Most potentially prebiotic phosphorylation reactions have relied on orthophosphate as the source of phosphorus. It is suggested here that the geochemistry of phosphorus on the early Earth was instead controlled by reduced oxidation state phosphorus compou...

Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) under low dissolved oxygen (DO) and anaerobic/aerobic(anoxic) enhanced phosphorus removal (EBPR) are two processes that can significantly reduce the energy and carbon required for nutrient removal. The combination of the two processes is expected to achieve biological nutrient removal with minimal requirement of oxygen and carbon. In this stu...

'Candidatus Accumulibacter' is a biotechnologically important bacterial group that can accumulate large amounts of intracellular polyphosphate, contributing to biological phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment. Since its first molecular identification more than a decade ago, this bacterial group has drawn significant research attention due to its high abundance in many biological phosphorus...

The capacity of a membrane biological reactor to provide nitrification, denitrification, and enhanced biological phosphorus removal of a high-strength aquaculture backwash flow (control condition), or the same flow amended with 100mg/L of NO(3)-N and 3mg/L of dissolved P (test condition), was assessed using only endogenous carbon. Permeate TSS and cBOD(5) concentrations were <1mg/L under contro...