Objective
Most nitroaromatic compounds in the biosphere are xenobiotics that result from the manufacture of explosives, dyes, drugs and solvents. The worldwide annual production of DNTs and TNT is about 10³ metric tons. These compounds are toxic for prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and they are also mutagenic; therefore, there is an urgent need for their removal from contaminated sites. This proposal is based on pure cultures and a consortium of strains that degrade DNTs and TNT, and it brings together academic research groups with different backgrounds (molecular biology, biochemistry, engineering, phytoremediation) and companies that operate in situ bioremediation. This combination of expertise will result in the elucidation of the molecular basis for the degeneration of DNTs and TNT, and in innovative treatments for the removal of these toxic compounds.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistry
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationphytoremediation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologybiosphera
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticschromosomes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmolecular biology
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Call for proposal
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80131 NAPOLI
Italy