{"id":1321,"date":"2018-12-17T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2018-12-27T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:48:50","slug":"microbial-degradation-of-nitrate-put-microbes-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2018\/12\/17\/microbial-degradation-of-nitrate-put-microbes-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbial Degradation of Nitrate: Put Microbes to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authors:\u00a0N.D. Gunasekara, F.S. Idroos,\u00a0Pathmalal M Manage<br \/>\nJournal:\u00a0<em>Environment and Natural Resources Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three nitrate degrading bacteria, namely S1, S2 and S3 strains, were isolated from soil samples collected from agricultural sites at Polonnaruwa, Oruwala and Gampaha, Sri Lanka respectively. Among the isolated strains, S1 showed a maximum nitrate removal rate of 4.20\u00b10.08 mg\/L\/day whereas S2 and S3 showed nitrate removal rates of 3.45\u00b10.57 mg\/L\/day and 3.72\u00b10.19 mg\/L\/day, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tci-thaijo.org\/index.php\/ennrj\/article\/download\/160565\/115822\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1322\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/put-microbes-to-work.jpg\" alt=\"put-microbes-to-work\" width=\"791\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/put-microbes-to-work.jpg 791w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/put-microbes-to-work-40x26.jpg 40w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/put-microbes-to-work-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/12\/put-microbes-to-work-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors:\u00a0N.D. Gunasekara, F.S. Idroos,\u00a0Pathmalal M Manage Journal:\u00a0Environment and Natural Resources Journal Three nitrate degrading bacteria, namely S1, S2 and S3 strains, were isolated from soil samples collected from agricultural sites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/2018\/12\/17\/microbial-degradation-of-nitrate-put-microbes-to-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microbial Degradation of Nitrate: Put Microbes to Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}