Petroleum pollution has short-term and long-term deleterious effects on the vulnerable marine ecosystem, including deep-sea, coastal and estuarine systems and is evidently a global concern. Various approaches involving ...

The development of a consortium comprising indigenous nora of the coconut husks is reported. This consortium which could be grown on husk leachates has been used as inoculum for the retting process under laboratory conditions. ...

Background: Microbial remediation is an ecologically safe alternative to controlling environmental pollution caused by toxic aromatic compounds including azo dyes. Marine bacteria show excellent potential as agents of ...

The fungal composition, abundance and diversity of the mangrove sediments from the Mandovi and Zuari estuaries, Goa, using paired-end Illumina sequencing, hitherto unexplored by a metagenomic approach, indicated that though ...

Spatiotemporal variation of human pathogenic bacteria was observed in the surface waters of a monsoonal estuary and these bacteria were also found to be associated with the native fish of two monsoonal estuaries. The ...

Four different morphotypes of halotolerant Penicillium isolated from mangroves and salterns, selected on the basis of their morphological dissimilarities, namely, monoverticillate, biverticillate symmetric, biverticillate ...

Use of earthworm species to biodegrade various substrates (industrial wastes, agricultural residues, etc.) for composting has proven to be successful after initial stabilization of vermi beds. This study presents optimization ...