Abstracts / Journal of Biotechnology 208 (2015) S5S120

This study aims to evaluate the colonization and degradation

ability of two selected fungi (Aspergillus brasiliensis and Paecilomyces variotii) over some PVA/Starch composites. The results
obtained demonstrate that the tested materials can be easily colonized and consumed by microorganisms that are commonly found
in the environment (water, soil, etc.), being a sustainable candidate
for replacing petroleum-based packaging materials.
Acknowledgements: This paper was published under the
frame of European Social Fund, Human Resources Development Operational Programme 20072013, project no. POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132765.
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The air permeability as important parameter of
soil environment
Daniela Raducu , Petre Voicu
National Research and Development Institute for Soil
Science, Agro-Chemistry and Environment ICPA,
Bucharest, Romania

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Active research of virioplanktone with application modern

molecular genetic methods will allow to establish the taxonomic
position of bacteriophages, to describe their phenotype and to evaluate their role in the ecology of freshwater reservoirs of Kazakhstan.
The aim of this work was to study the genetic diversity of bacteriophages of Kapchagai, one of the largest articial reservoirs
created to regulate the ow of the Ili River.
Water samples from the reservoir were selected in the summer.
Samples of water volume 1500 ml ltered through polycarbonate
lters with a pore diameter of 1.2, 0.45 and 0.22 m for the removal
of zooplankton, phytoplankton and bacterioplankton. After, the
samples were concentrated by ultracentrifugation.
From samples, the DNA was extracted for further sequencing
on the HiSeq Illumina. Reads was collected by Edena program. For
the purpose of nding of the greatest number of bacteriophage
necessary crossing of reads was established in 35 nucleotides.
Bioinformatic analysis of the research showed that the most
widespread representatives of virioplanktone in the reservoir are
phages of Synechococcus, Flavobacterium, Caulobacter and Roseobacter genus.
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E-mail address: daniela.icpa@yahoo.com (D. Raducu).

According to the environmental biotechnology, that is applied to
and used to study the natural environment, soil is an important
pillar of Earth life. The aim of the paper was to emphasise the biological activity involved in air permeability of a Cambic Chernozem,
formed in loess deposits, located in Romanian Plain. The data of
air permeability, determined with an Eijelkcamp permeameter (on
cylinders of 235.6 cm3 ), showed high values (6.0% v/v) in the Ap
(025 cm) and lower one (4.0% v/v) in the more compacted Apt horizon, maintaining both in the extremely high do main. The aeration
porosity has also high values, ranging between 23% v/v (Ap) and 30%
v/v (Apt). Despite of these high data, the eld observation showed
a very compacted Apt. The data of air permeability could be correlated with the pore size and shape, as well as with their genesis.
In the Ap horizon, the dominant biological activity is prevailed by
macrofauna that drilled chambers and continuous burrows, which
permit the air changes between soil and atmosphere, explained
the high values of air permeability. In the compacted Apt horizon,
the dominant physico-mechanical processes generated cracks that
created preferential paths of water and air circulation, while inside
the clods, the smaller but numerous burrows of mezofauna (dominant here) explains the high values of air permeability and aeration
porosity.
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Genetic variety of bacteriophages of the
Kapchagai waterbody
Madina Alexyuk , Andrey Bogoyavlenskiy, Pavel
Alexyuk, Vladimir Berezin
Department of Virology, Institute of Microbiology
and Virology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
E-mail address: madina.a06@gmail.com (M. Alexyuk).
In the last decades interest in studying of virus communities of
water ecosystems steadily grows that is caused by understanding
of their global role in functioning of reservoirs. Similar studies in
several countries have revealed a high number and species diversity
of virioplanktone in ecology of aquatic ecosystems. However, at
the moment of data for the study of viruses and their role in the
freshwater reservoirs of the Republic of Kazakhstan are practically
not present.

Environmental biotechnology in wastewater

treatment
Ionela Ramona Zgavarogea 1, , Violeta Carolina
Niculescu 1 , Marius Gheorghe Miricioiu 1 , Corina
Ciucure 1 , Iosif Tempea 2
1 National R&D Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopes
Technologies ICSI, Ramnicu Valcea, Romania
2 The Faculty of Engineering and Management of
Technological Systems, Politehnica University of
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail address: ramona.surdu@icsi.ro (I.R. Zgavarogea).

This paper reports the possibility of using biotechnology in order
to ensure environmental quality. Biotechnology is an established
environmentally sound technology (EST) with many applications,
and already plays a signicant role in tackling a number of pollution problems. Detection, monitoring and prevention of pollution
and environmental restoration are analyzed according to the development prospects of biotechnology. Biotechnological processes
for water treatment were chosen as subjects relevant to remark
the main directions of using environmental biotechnology. Opportunity environmental biotechnology contributions on innovative
strategies in the future envisages new solutions to address environmental contamination, pollution prevention and increasing the
efciency and productivity of biological processes in wastewater treatment. For water treatment, new biotechnology methods
are being developed that will remove nitrogen, phosphorous and
sulphur compounds. Biotechnology nds application elds in the
treatment of wastewaters by biological methods and disposal of
solid wastes by composting technique in environmental engineering. The methods based on biotechnology in wastewater treatment
include activated sludge, trickling lters, oxidation ponds, biolters and anaerobic treatment. In order to apply these methods, it is
essential to nd suitable microorganisms that will degrade organic
substances and to complete the treatment process in favourable
conditions. This study investigate some biotechnological applications used in environmental engineering for waste treatment, in
order to obtain a sustainable progress.
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