Table 1.

Examples of plasmid-mediated bioaugmentation studies.

Contaminant	Plasmid	Strain	Reference
3-phenoxybenzoic acid	pPOB	P. pseudoalcaligenes POB310	Halden et al., 1999
3-chlorobenzoate	pBRC60	C. testosteroni	Pepper et al., 2002
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid	pJP4	C. necator JMP134 E. coli HB101	Tsutsui et al., 2013
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid	pJP4	P. putida KT2442 E. coli HB101	Inoue et al., 2012
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid	pEMT1 pJP4	P. putida UWC3	Dejonghe et al., 2000
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid	pJP4	R. eutropha JMP134 E. coli D11	Newby et al., 2000
γ-hexachlorocyclohexane	pLB1	S. japonicum UT26DB	Miyazaki et al., 2006
Chlorpyrifos	pDOC	E. coli JM109	Zhang et al., 2012
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane	pDOD	E. coli TG I	Gao et al., 2015
Naphthalene	pNF142	P. putida BS394 P. putida KT2442	Filonov et al., 2010
Oil	pWW0-derivative TOL	P. putida PaW85	Jussila et al., 2007
Toluene	pWW0-derivative TOL	P. putida BBC443	Ikuma and Gunsch, 2012