A feasibility study on seeding as a bioremediation practice for the oily Kuwaiti desert

摘要: Immediately after a simulated oil spill, and for 28 weeks, Kuwaiti desert samples became steadily enriched with one specific, indigenous, oil-degrading Arthrobacter strain, KCC 201. Other indigenous degraders, including other strains, either remained unchanged at low numbers or disappeared. The partial hydrocarbon degradation in the polluted was primarily due to actively propagating strain. Seeding 28-week-old local foreign isolates did not lead enhancement of resulted dramatic decreases predominant, Some seeded organisms, particularly isolates, failed establish themselves samples, apparently because microbial competition.