Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria: Applications in Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Ammonia oxidising bacteria (AOB) and archaea are ubiquitous microorganisms, but their abundance and diversity vary widely across environments and play a crucial role in many ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems in particular. However, characterization of AOB communities requires genomic methods as they are difficult to isolate from samples. Although non—toxic to humans, in the short term, ammonia in water systems is harmful to aquatic life both directly and indirectly through the disruption of...