bioremediation

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hiiiiiiii i m recently working on biosorption of heavy metals................i have isolated 10 isolates of bacteria, n screening them for the resistant bacteria................. wht is d ideal capacity of bacteria to tolerate heavy metals like cobalt , copper and nickel.??

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what is d procedure to co-immobilise the two organisms , for absorbing heavy metals??? plz do reply with the link or appropriate procedure.........thanking you.
BH@V!

[deleted-71827]

Hi,
The ability of microorganisms to absorb such heavy metals really varies a lot. However, there are a lot of projects which you can check the procedures of in order to give you some insight into what scales and quantities you should use in your own project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 222432.htm

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rur/issue2_fil ... /spain.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11963846

http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/ON/art ... /1655/1544

The tolerance would depend on the species, and would definitely be something of interest to you to test and analyze in your project! Hope this helps!

[deleted-71827]

Hi,
Also, in terms of co-immobilization, this article and its references (Leung et al. in particular) may be of use to you:

http://ajol.info/index.php/ajest/articl ... 6325/44765

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chbhaveshri,

I've merged two of your posts and deleted a third that was a word-for-word duplicate of this one. We ask that you keep all of your posts about a particular project in the same thread. It helps experts and everyone else see all of the relevant information together, so you'll really get better answers that way.

Amanda