Incorporated as part of the design of some point-of-use filters are layers of organic material and benign growth of microorganisms into a structure known as biofilms.
Among green synthesis methods, the use of plants for nanoparticles synthesis could be advantageous over other environmentally benign approaches like microorganisms-based methods [6, 7, 10], as this eliminates the elaborate process of microorganism culture [11, 12] and the reaction time dramatically diminishes from several days to several hours.
The goat-gut microorganisms, she explained, "aren't altogether benign".
Photosynthetic microorganisms are important bioresources for producing desirable and environmentally benign products, and photobioreactors (PBRs) play important roles in these processes.
One promising idea is to use probiotics to replace the microorganisms that cause bad odors with ones that cause more benign smells.
(iii) Specificity Due to the specificity of their intended mode of action (glyphosate inhibits the activity of a single enzyme which is essential in all plants and in some microorganisms, but not in animals), some researchers consider GBHs to be relatively toxicologically benign.
Biotechnology might represent a powerful means for large-scale synthesis of natural compounds as the use of microorganisms allows for low cost and rapid production of biologically active molecules through an environmentally benign route.
Recent studies have suggested that ever increasing non-functional genes are being identified within microorganisms and in particular are more common in genomes of recently evolved pathogens, than in their benign or free-living relatives [ 25].
Thus, although the fungus-growing termites create a benign environment for the fungus inside their nest, the fungus garden may not be as well protected from external parasitic microorganisms as a real endosymbiont would be, so that selection for symbiont genetic diversity at the population level is maintained in most groups of fungus-growing termites.
