Bioremediation of Southern Mediterranean oil polluted sites comes of age
| Autor: | Daffonchio D, Ferrer M, Mapelli F, Cherif A, Lafraya A, Malkawi H. I, Yakimov MM, Abdel Fattah, Blaghen M, Golyshin PN, Kalogerakis N, Boon N, Magagnini M, FAVA, FABIO |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Daffonchio D, Ferrer M, Mapelli F, Cherif A, Lafraya A, Malkawi H I, Yakimov MM, Abdel-Fattah, YR, Blaghen M, Golyshin PN, Kalogerakis N, Boon N, Magagnini M, Fava F |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Mediterranean climate
Pollution sea Oceans and Seas media_common.quotation_subject Marine microbial ecology Bioengineering 010501 environmental sciences Structural basin 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Bioremediation Mediterranean sea Metaproteomics Environmental protection 14. Life underwater Baseline (configuration management) Molecular Biology Oil pollution 030304 developmental biology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 0303 health sciences Mediterranean Region Ecology Southern Mediterranean Countries Oil refinery General Medicine Oil-polluted sites VENICE LAGOON 6. Clean water communities Biodegradation Environmental Petroleum 13. Climate action Environmental science Metagenomics Water Microbiology Water Pollutants Chemical Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | New Biotechnology Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | Mediterranean Sea is facing a very high risk of oil pollution due to the high number of oil extractive and refining sites along the basin coasts, and the intense maritime traffic of oil tankers. All the Mediterranean countries have adopted severe regulations for minimizing pollution events and bioremediation feasibility studies for the most urgent polluted sites are undergoing. However, the analysis of the scientific studies applying modern 'meta-omics' technologies that have been performed on marine oil pollution worldwide showed that the Southern Mediterranean side has been neglected by the international research. Most of the studies in the Mediterranean Sea have been done in polluted sites of the Northern side of the basin. Those of the Southern side are poorly studied, despite many of the Southern countries being major oil producers and exporters. The recently EU-funded research project ULIXES has as a major objective to increase the knowledge of the bioremediation potential of sites from the Southern Mediterranean countries. ULIXES is targeting four major polluted sites on the coastlines of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, including seashore sands, lagoons, and oil refinery polluted sediments. The research is designed to unravel, categorize, catalogue, exploit and manage the diversity and ecology of microorganisms thriving in these polluted sites. Isolation of novel hydrocarbon degrading microbes and a series of state of the art 'meta-omics' technologies are the baseline tools for improving our knowledge on biodegradation capacities mediated by microbes under different environmental settings and for designing novel site-tailored bioremediation approaches. A network of twelve European and Southern Mediterranean partners is cooperating for plugging the existing gap of knowledge for the development of novel bioremediation processes targeting such poorly investigated polluted sites. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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