Denitrifying Bacteria Active in Woodchip Bioreactors at Low-Temperature Conditions

Performance of Agricultural Residue Media in Laboratory Denitrifying Bioreactors at Low Temperatures.

Denitrifying bioreactors can be effective for removing nitrate from agricultural tile drainage; however, questions about cold springtime performance persist. The objective of this study was to improve the nitrate removal rate (NRR) of denitrifying bioreactors at warm and cold temperatures using agriculturally derived media rather than wood chips (WC). Corn ( L.) cobs (CC), corn stover (CS), bar...

Fate of aniline and sulfanilic acid in UASB bioreactors under denitrifying conditions.

Two upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors were operated to investigate the fate of aromatic amines under denitrifying conditions. The feed consisted of synthetic wastewater containing aniline and/or sulfanilic acid and a mixture of volatile fatty acids (VFA) as the primary electron donors. Reactor 1 (R1) contained a stoichiometric concentration of nitrate and Reactor 2 (R2) a stoichio...

Low Levels of Nitrous Oxide Aerobic Denitrifying Bacteria That Produce

Aerobic denitrifying bacteria that produce low levels of nitrous oxide.

Most denitrifiers produce nitrous oxide (N(2)O) instead of dinitrogen (N(2)) under aerobic conditions. We isolated and characterized novel aerobic denitrifiers that produce low levels of N(2)O under aerobic conditions. We monitored the denitrification activities of two of the isolates, strains TR2 and K50, in batch and continuous cultures. Both strains reduced nitrate (NO(3)(-)) to N(2) at rate...

Ocean acidification impacts bacteria–phytoplankton coupling at low-nutrient conditions

The oceans absorb about a quarter of the annually produced anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), resulting in a decrease in surface water pH, a process termed ocean acidification (OA). Surprisingly little is known about how OA affects the physiology of heterotrophic bacteria or the coupling of heterotrophic bacteria to phytoplankton when nutrients are limited. Previous experiments wer...