Enrichment of denitrifying methane-oxidizing microorganisms using up-flow continuous reactors and batch cultures.

Denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidizing (DAMO) microorganisms were enriched from paddy field soils using continuous-flow and batch cultures fed with nitrate or nitrite as a sole electron acceptor. After several months of cultivation, the continuous-flow cultures using nitrite showed remarkable simu...

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Main Authors: Masashi Hatamoto, Masafumi Kimura, Takafumi Sato, Masato Koizumi, Masanobu Takahashi, Shuji Kawakami, Nobuo Araki, Takashi Yamaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4278798?pdf=render