Figure 1.

Dioxane degradation by enriched consortia and two archetypes (left) and concurrent growth of consortia (right). Experiments were conducted using AMS medium with an initial dioxane concentration of 500 mg l⁻¹. The initial biomass densities (measured as protein content) were 25 mg l⁻¹ for CB1190, 32 mg l⁻¹ for PH‐06, 19 mg l⁻¹ for Consortium A and 36 mg l⁻¹ for Consortium B. The controls contained autoclaved bacteria.