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The Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, got new insights regarding the distribution of antibiotic resistance in plant phyllosphere microbiome
Contacts:SU Jianqiang
E-mail：jqsu@iue.ac.cn
link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.260Phyllosphere contains various microorganisms that may harbor diverse antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). These ARB and ARGs would directly affect the health of human beings through food uptake. In a recent study published in Science of the Total Environment, a research group led by Prof. Yong-Guan Zhu from Institute of Urban Environmen...
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Arsenic-converting Microbiota and Their Metabolism in the Gut of Soil Fauna Estimated
Contacts:XUE Xi-Mei
E-mail：xmxue@iue.ac.cn
link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b06695Arsenic is a widely distributed and highly toxic environmental pollutant. Lots of arsenic compounds enter the farmland soil system through industrial discharge, animal husbandry and agricultural production, which not only cause poor growth of soil crops, even poses a threat to the health of people and animals. Earthworms are an extremely important repository of biodiversity ...
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Palladium supported on low-surface-area fiber-based materials for catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds
Contacts:HE Hong
E-mail：hhe@iue.ac.cn
link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.04.184Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are one of the major contributors to air pollution. According to “The Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, the total VOCs emission in 2020 will drop by more than 10% compared with 2015. With the imposition of increasingly strict emission regulations, there is more and more demand for post-treatment technologies. Catalytic oxidation is considered to...
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Researchers Reveals the Role of Earthworm Gut Microbiota in the Iron Biogeochemical Cycling
Contacts:YANG Xiaoru
E-mail：xryang@iue.ac.cn
link:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b06187Earthworms function as soil ecosystem engineers, as they can impact the structure and fertility of soils through their feeding and burrowing activities. Earthworms are a major soil macrofaunal group and population sizes can reach numbers of 2000 individuals per square meter of soil, thus they make important contribution to carbon stabilization, mineralization and nitrogen tu...
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New progress in the urbanization gradient of selected pharmaceuticals in surface water at a watershed scale by Institute of Urban Environment
Contacts:YU Shen
E-mail：syu@iue.ac.cn
Link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.392Ubiquitous detection of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment around the world raises a great public concern. Aquatic residuals of pharmaceuticals have been assumed to relate to land use patterns and various human activities within a catchment or watershed.This study generated a gradient of human activity in the Jiulong River watershed, southeastern China by urban land ...
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Progress has been made in the degradation of antibiotics by intimately coupled photocatalysis and biodegradation
Contacts:ZHAO Feng
E-mail：fzhao@iue.ac.cn
link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.06.068Recently, new progress has been made in the degradation of oxytetracycline (OTC) by the method of intimately coupled photocatalysis and biodegradation (ICPB). The key laboratory of urban pollutant conversion of CAS reports a modified synergistic degradation protocol by simultaneously combining photoelectrons transfer between photocatalysts and microbes without adding additio...
