Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application

284 Index

Phototrophs 15
Phragmites 119, 162, 170–1, 256
Phytodegradation 148–9, 151
Phytoextraction 143, 145–7
Phytoremediation 143–4, 229–30
Phytostabilisation 143, 147–8
Phytotechnology 36, 143–71, 258
Phytovolatilisation 149–50, 229
Plant
disease suppression 250–2
examples of transgenics 226–30
exudate 257
genetic engineering 224–30
new products 230
nutrient uptake 257
use in pollution detection 168
Plant-Microbe interactions 256–63
Plasmids, definition 20
Pollution and pollution control 3, 65–87,
89, 168, 273
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 53,
218–9, 270
Poplars 149, 150, 233, 244–5
Prokaryote, definition 12
Promoter, 35S 226
Proteins 20 (fig), 25–7
Protoplast fusion 224
Protozoa 13, 130, 133, 185
Pseudomonas 2, 59, 81, 119, 149
Psychrophiles 53
Pteridophytes 144, 145
Pthalates 59
Pure Oxygen Systems 135

Quorum sensing 228

Rape (Arabidopsis thalia) 230
Reanney, D 60
Recombinants 215, 222
Recombination 223
Reeds 119, 128, 161–2, 170–1, 256
Remediation 91–112
ex situ 91, 106–9
in situ 91, 102–6
Renewable energy 166, 205, 237–49
Reporter genes 221, 275
Respiration 29–35
Restriction endonucleases 216
Retroviruses 22, 61

Return Activated Sludge (RAS) 130

Rhizobium bacteria 81, 258, 260

Rhizodegradation 149, 151, 157

Rhizofiltration 143, 147

Rhizospheres, description 256

Rhodospirillium 259

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) 21 (fig)

Root nodule formation 259–61

Rotating Biological Contactor 136

Rotifers 13, 130, 132, 133

Rubisco 41–4

Selector marker genes 219, 275

Semiochemicals 83

Septic tank 119–21, 161

Sewage treatment 113–7, 192

Short Rotation Coppicing (SRC) 244–7

“Sick Buildings” 257

Slime bulking 132

Sludge disposal 138–9, 189

Soil factors 50, 68, 99–100, 103, 107,

118–20, 152, 154

Soil microbes 256–8

Southern blot 222

Specific Oxygen Uptake Rates (SOUR)

181

Spores 14

Stabilisation ponds 115

Steroid hormones, degradation 25

Substrate characteristics 160

Sustainability 236–7

Symbiosis 258

TCA Cycle 16 (fig), 24

Terrestrial phytosystems 144–54

Thermophiles 52–3, 80, 270

Ti plasmid 262–3

TNT 154, 229

Toxicity, of pollutants 66, 69, 116–7,

132

Training of bacteria 214

Transcription 21 (fig)

Transformation 60, 275

Transgenic, definition 215

Transposons 60

Treatment trains 96, 203, 235

Trees 150–3, 244–7

Triacylglycerols 24

Turbine Sparger 125–6