Fig. 2.

Aerobic degradation of BBP by pure bacterial strains at neutral pH. Strains a Corynebacterium sp. DK4 (Chang et al. 2004); b Sphingomonas sp. O18 (Chang et al. 2004); c Gordonia sp. strain MTCC 4818 (Chatterjee and Dutta 2003); d P. fluorescens B-1 (Xu et al. 2006); e Arthrobacter sp. WY + 0.05 mM Tween 80 (Chatterjee and Dutta 2008a); f Arthrobacter sp. WY (Chatterjee and Dutta 2008a). Incubation temperature was 30°C for a, b, d and 28°C for c, e, f. For strains a–d, values are the averages of triplicate determinations, and for e, f, values are the averages of triplicate determinations with the standard deviation of ±5%