A proper combination of waste materials is important for the achievement of high temperature as it gives a proper combination of carbon and nitrogen to the microbial population for their growth and activities (Singh and Kalamdhad 2012).
Greater efficacy (D10-value: the dose required to eliminate 90% of the microbial population) for inactivating SE PT30 and S. Tennessee was seen on the surface of almonds (0.226 0.431 kGy) than on walnuts (0.474 0.930 kGy) at all water activities.
Conventional methods are followed for screening the microbial population for production of biosurfactant.
The rainy season produced a higher microbial population for all described genera.
At the same time, the effect of P. australis as the sole factor eventually influencing the metabolic activity of the autochthonous microbial population for contaminant depletion, independently from the restoration of the resource-ratio framework [ 34], merits a dedicated investigation to eventually improve the cost sustainability of dredged sediment decontamination.
However, the low biomass obtained from oropharyngeal swabs impedes the application of the DGGE technique for characterizing microbial populations of the oropharyngeal mucosa.
A metagenome analysis has been proven as an effective method for retrieving interesting microbial populations from complex ecosystems [ 33, 34].
The potential for microbial remediation (reduction) of Cr VI) by indigenous microbial populations from the ultramafic soils of Sukinda mines in Jaipur, Orissa, India, was investigated by Mishra et al. (2009).
In this context, the use of 16S rRNA gene libraries for the investigation of microbial populations responsible for short-chain alkane degradation, mainly ethane and propane, may be time consuming and offer low resolution in terms of species and genes as key players in the degradation processes.
Denitrification of rice paddy soil was reported as early as 1907 ([Ishii et al. 2011]), however, the microbial populations responsible for denitrification have not been investigated for a long period.
