Haloferax mediterranei R4 for bioremediation of desalination and textile wastes: a step towards their valorisation
Iraide Sáez-Zamacona, Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa, Guillermo Grindlay · 2025
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Iraide Sáez-Zamacona, Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa, and Guillermo Grindlay put a salt-loving archaeon to work cleaning industrial wastewater. Haloferax mediterranei thrives in brines and already showed talent for removing nitrogen compounds and metals. The team grew it in desalination and textile effluents, supplemented with minimal nutrients.
Growth slowed and the cells visibly stressed, pumping out up to ten times more carotenoid pigment on textile waste than in ideal medium. The microbe still stripped sixty to ninety percent of nitrate from the wastes, among the best rates reported at such salinities. The authors pitch a circular strategy: wastewater treatment that also harvests valuable pigment, pending better waste blending.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Iraide Sáez-Zamacona, Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa, Guillermo Grindlay |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |