The EU-funded MIBIREM project develops an innovative toolbox for microbiome-based soil remediation on industrially contaminated sites. Biotechnological remediation employs the use of living organisms, mostly bacteria, in the removal of contaminants from the environment.

The project will develop molecular methods for the monitoring, isolation, cultivation and deposition of whole microbiomes. The MIBIREM toolbox will also include methodology to improve microbiome functions, including evolution and enrichment. Improved microbiomes will then be tested under real field conditions in selected sites across Europe on cyanides, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC).

This community is under construction, but provides a space for future sharing of soil bioremediation-related material.

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