Kelly S. Bender

TL;DR: Two Dechloromonas strains are reported, RCB and JJ, that can completely mineralize various mono-aromatic compounds including benzene to CO2 in the absence of O2 with nitrate as the electron acceptor, the first example, to the authors' knowledge, of an organism of any type that can oxidize benzene anaerobically.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated here that Bradyrhizobium japonicum encodes separate ent‐copalyl diphosphate and ent‐kaurene synthases, whose enzymatic composition indicates that gibberellin biosynthesis in bacteria represents a third independently assembled pathway relative to plants and fungi.

TL;DR: The separation of perchlorate reductase as an activity distinct from chlorate reduction separate from nitrate reduction was further supported by DNA hybridization analysis of (per)chlorate- and chlorate-reducing strains using the pcrA gene as a probe.

TL;DR: To detect DPRB in the environment, two degenerate primer sets targeting the chlorite dismutase (cld) gene were developed and optimized and represent a direct and sensitive molecular method for the qualitative detection of (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria in the environments, thus offering another tool for monitoring natural attenuation.

TL;DR: This study represents the first description of a functional gene associated with microbial perchlorate reduction, isolated and sequenced from the per chlorate-reducing bacterium Dechloromonas agitata strain CKB.