Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application - G. M. Evans & J. C. Furlong

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

							Index 285
Ultra Fine Bubble (UFB) systems 124 – 6				Waste	3, 4, 173 – 211, 264, 272 – 3
UNOX		135		collection regimes			182
Vegetative caps			151	Water hyacinth 157
				Water table		102, 104, 120 – 1, 150, 245
Vermiculture 200 – 4				Wild type		214
Vertical transfer			14	Windrow 108, 187
Vesicle		24		Woese, Carl		12
VFAs	193, 199			Worms	185, 200 – 4
vir genes		262
VOCs	72, 79, 108			Xenobiotics		55 – 9, 63, 72
Wallace, Alfred Russell 1				Yeast, recombinant			223, 269