Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application

Index 283

Hydraulic containment 150–3
Hyperaccumulators 144, 146–7
Hyperthermophiles 52, 270

Identification of microorganisms 29–30
Immobilisation of pollutants 11
Incineration 92, 176, 236–7
Indigo dye 223
Industrial applications 4, 6, 78–9, 122,
264, 270–2
Influences on environmental biotechnology
8, 50, 77, 89–91, 97–9, 111, 139,
175, 207, 235, 243, 269
Injection Recovery 104
Insertion sequences 60
Integration 9, 96, 109, 235–67
Intensive technologies 94
Intervention points 3, 49, 139, 173
Introns 218

Klebsiella 259

Laboratory identification of microbes 47
Lamarkism 2
Land Farming 106–7
Landfill 176–80
Landfill gas (LFG) 177, 181, 239, 241
leachate 161–2, 178–80
Land Spreading, sludges and effluents
117–9
Latent pathways 17, 50
Leghaemoglobin 261
Light Reactions 37–41
Lignin 174–5, 185, 198, 258
Linkages
α1–4 174
β1–4 174
Lipids 24
Lithotrophic organisms 15
Loading rates 133–4, 198
Luciferase 221

Macrophyte Treatment Systems 155–62
Mariner genes 274
Market for environmental biotechnology
5, 110
McClintock, Barbara 60
Membrane Bioreactors 137
Metabolic capability 19
Metabolism 15–45
Metals 70–2, 95, 145–8, 149, 154,
156–7, 160, 207, 229, 264
phytoremediation of 145–8

Methane 177–8, 192, 238–42

Methanogenesis 28, 31, 33–4, 50, 179,

193–4, 239–40

Microbial pesticides 253–6

Microbiological profiling 186

Microbombardment/biolistics/gene guns

227

Microcosms 275

Mitchell, Peter 31

Monitoring 11, 105–6

Monooxygenases, P450 227

Multi Cloning Site (MCS) 219

Mutant 214

Mycorrhizae 149, 252, 257

NAD/NADH 23

Natural attenuation 100–1, 108

Nematodes 82, 185, 255, 263

nifgene clusters 261

Nitrification 42, 116, 123, 158, 183, 185

Nitrogen Cycle 27, 42, 45

Nitrogen fixation 42, 153, 258–9

nodgenes 260

Noise pollution 152–3

Nucleic Acids

degradation 27

structures 19 (fig)

Nutrient Film Techniques 162

Odour control 72–6, 159, 188

Oestrogen 25, 56–8, 269

Oils 24

Operons 213

Optimisation 3, 9, 93, 105

Organic phytoremediation 148–51

Orthonitrophenol galactoside (ONPG)

221

Oxidase test 33

Oxidation,β 25

Oxidation Ditch 136

Oxidative Phosphorylation 13, 28, 31–5

PAHs 57, 58, 138, 153, 248

Pathogens 181, 208, 251

bacterial 228

plant 258, 262–3

PCBs 59

pGEM 219–20

pH 50, 51, 54, 69, 99, 133, 194, 199

Pheromones 183–4

Photorespiration 35, 44

Photosynthesis 36–43, 165, 166, 237