Anammox

These creatures, now called anammox bacteria, transform caustic and hazardous ammonium into dinitrogen, the harmless nitrogen gas that makes up 78% of the air we breathe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now Lohan is trying to incorporate anammox bacteria into Living Machines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lohan cautions that the company has only been able to incorporate anammox bacteria in the lab. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Lohan can get his anammox bacteria to behave well enough to deal with pig and cow waste, maybe the livestock too will appreciate the Living Machine's vegetation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another pathway of N2 production is the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox; NH4++ NO2 - → N2 + 2H2O) which, in contrast to denitrification, is carried by chemoautotrophic bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A part of the uncertainty in water-column N2 production arises from the fact that most estimates are based on the deficiency in NO3 - within the OMZs relative to the concentration expected from the nearly-constant relative changes in C: N: P: O in seawater due to biological activity (the Redfield Ratios: 106: 16: 1: 138), whereas the recently discovered anammox process supported by measurements of N2/Ar suggests that the extent of N2 production might substantially exceed ‘nitrate deficits’. ❋ Unknown (2006)