bacteria used for scavenging oil spill by digesting hydrocarbon of crude oil
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they are called psedomonas bacteria
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Crude oil (petroleum) is a highly complex mixture of organic compounds of which some 1.3 million litres enter the environment each year mainly due to oil-spilling disasters.
Several bacteria are even known to feed exclusively on hydrocarbons. These facultative hydrocarbon degraders play an important role in the clean‐up after an oil spill and form the biological basis for the natural oil‐degrading capacity of the ecosystem.
Evolution has created some bacteria that dine exclusively on hydrocarbons, including obligate hydrocarbon degraders of the genera Oleispira, Oleiphilus, Thalassolituus, Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus.
Effective PAH breakdown involves whole communities of both bacteria and eukaryotes. Within these communities, the PAH‐degrading capabilities of Arthobacter, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium, Rhodococcus, Burkholderia, and Sphingomonas are best studied.
Several bacteria are even known to feed exclusively on hydrocarbons. These facultative hydrocarbon degraders play an important role in the clean‐up after an oil spill and form the biological basis for the natural oil‐degrading capacity of the ecosystem.
Evolution has created some bacteria that dine exclusively on hydrocarbons, including obligate hydrocarbon degraders of the genera Oleispira, Oleiphilus, Thalassolituus, Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus.
Effective PAH breakdown involves whole communities of both bacteria and eukaryotes. Within these communities, the PAH‐degrading capabilities of Arthobacter, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium, Rhodococcus, Burkholderia, and Sphingomonas are best studied.
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