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Biotechnol 43(4):762–765
Lemly AD (2004) Aquatic selenium pollution is a global environmental safety issue. Ecotoxicol
Environ Saf 59(1):44–56
Lenz M, Lens PNL (2009) The essential toxin: the changing perception of selenium in environmental sciences. Sci Total Environ 407(12):3620–3633
Lenz M, Van Hullebusch ED, Hommes G, Corvini PFX, Lens PNL (2008) Selenate removal in
methanogenic and sulfate-reducing upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactors. Water Res 42
(8-9):2184–2194
Li S, Li T, Li F., Liang L, Li G, Guo S (2011) Application of sequential extraction analysis to
electrokinetic remediation of chromium contaminated soil. In: Bioinformatics and Biomedical
Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011, 5th International conference, pp 1–4
Li D, Huang T, Liu K (2015) Near-anode focusing phenomenon caused by the coupling effect of
early precipitation and backward electromigration in electrokinetic remediation of MSWI fly
ashes. Environ Technol 37(2):216–227
Lloyd JR, Ridley J, Khizniak T, Lyalikova NN, Macaskie LE (1999) Reduction of technetium by
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans: biocatalyst characterization and use in a flow through bioreactor.
Appl Environ Microbiol 65(6):2691–2696
Lloyd JR, Pearce CI, Coker VS, Pattrick RADP, van der Laan G, Cutting R, Vaughan DV,
Paterson-Beedle M, Mikheenko I, Yong P, Macaskie LE (2008) Biomineralization; linking
the fossil record to the production of high value functional materials. Geobiology 6(3):285–297
Lovley DR, Phillips EJP (1994) Reduction of chromate by Disulfovibrio vulgaris and its c3
cytochrome. Appl Environ Microbiol 60(2):726–728
Ma G, Garbers-Craig AM (2006) Cr(VI) containing electric furnace dusts and filter cake from a
stainless steel waste treatment plant Part 1 – Characteristics and microstructure. Ironmak
Steelmak 33(3):229–237
Mabbett AN, Sanyahumbi D, Yong P, Macaskie LE (2006) Biorecovered precious metals from
industrial wastes: single-step conversion of a mixed metal liquid waste to a bioinorganic catalyst
with environmental application. Environ Sci Technol 40(3):1015–1021
Makgato SS, Chirwa EMN (2015) Photoassisted biodegradation of irradiated organics in simulated
nuclear wastewater. Water Environ Res 87(5):392–403
Maturi K, Reddy KR (2008) Cosolvent-enhanced desorption and transport of heavy metals and
organic contaminants in soils during electrokinetic remediation. Water Air Soil Pollut 189
(1–4):199–211
Mehta S, Gaur J (2005) Use of algae for removing heavy metal ions from wastewater: Progress and
prospects. Crit Rev Biotechnol 25(3):113–152
Meli KC(2009) Microbial Cr(VI) reduction in indigenous cultures of bacteria: characterisation and
modelling. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Merian E (1984) Introduction on environmental chemistry and global cycles of arsenic, beryllium,
cadmium, chromium, cobalt, nickel, selenium, and their derivatives. Toxicol Environ Chem 8
(1):9–38
Milkey NE (2010) Remediation of a hexavalent chromium release to groundwater using
ion-specific resins. In: Proc. 25th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water
and Energy, October 19–22, 2009, Amherst, Massachusetts, vol. 15, article 7. Available at:
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/soilsproceedings/vol15/iss1/7
Molokwane PE, Chirwa EM (2007) Development of a Carbon-14 bioseparation technique for
clean-up of nuclear graphite. In: Proc 11th International conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management (ICEM2007), Bruges, Belgium, September 2–6,
2007, pp 113–118
Molokwane PE, Nkhalambayausi-Chirwa EM (2009) Microbial culture dynamics and chromium
(VI) removal in packed-column microcosm reactors. Water Sci Technol 60(2):381–388
2 Advances in Bioremediation of Toxic Heavy Metals and Radionuclides in. . .
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