This post is from a blog comment by M. Grace Sielaff
Bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms (Microorganisms – a tiny organism such as a virus, or protozoan, or bacterium that ca only be seen under a microscope), fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. Bioremediation may be employed to attack specific soil contaminants, such as chlorinated hydrocarbons that are degraded by bacteria, or a more general approach may be taken, such as oil spills that are broken down by multiple techniques including the addition of nitrate and/or sulfate fertilizers to facilitate the decomposition of crude oil by indigenous or exogenous bacteria.
