EJPAU 2010. Hawrot-Paw M. , Czapla M. CHANGES IN NUMBER OF CHOSEN METABOLIC GROUPS IN MICROFLORA OF SOIL POLLUTED WITH BENZENE

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2010
Volume 13
Issue 3

Topic:

Environmental Development

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Hawrot-Paw M. , Czapla M. 2010. CHANGES IN NUMBER OF CHOSEN METABOLIC GROUPS IN MICROFLORA OF SOIL POLLUTED WITH BENZENE, EJPAU 13(3), #04.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume13/issue3/abs-04.html

CHANGES IN NUMBER OF CHOSEN METABOLIC GROUPS IN MICROFLORA OF SOIL POLLUTED WITH BENZENE

Małgorzata Hawrot-Paw, Magdalena Czapla
Department of Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

ABSTRACT

The following study evaluates the influence of benzene pollution on the number of specific metabolic groups of soil microflora. In our research we used the following pollution doses: 100, 1.000 and 10.000 mg · kg^-1s.m. of soil. The results were analyzed. The proteolytic organisms showed up to be the most susceptible for benzene, the least – the organisms decomposing fats. The analysis revealed that the dose as well as the kind of a hydrocarbon and the time of exposure did
not have any significant influence on the amount of amylolytic organisms, however those factors influenced significantly the lypolytic and proteolytic organisms.

Key words: benzene, pollution, soil microflora.

Małgorzata Hawrot-Paw
Department of Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology,
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Słowackiego 17, 71-434 Szczecin, Poland
Phone: +48 (91) 44 96 423
email: Malgorzata.Hawrot-Paw@zut.edu.pl

Magdalena Czapla
Department of Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology,
West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Słowackiego 17, 71-434 Szczecin, Poland

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