ABSTRACT
Nitroaromatic compounds are released in the environment through anthropogenic activities and produced by incomplete combustion of fuel. The persistence of substituted nitroaromatic pollutants in soil, sediment, and water have been causing concerns for environmentalists. Interest in biodegradation of nitroaromatics guided the discovery of various bacteria responsible for the utilization of diverse kinds of nitroaromatic pollutants such as nitrobenzene, nitrophenols, and nitrotoluenes but only a few bacteria have been listed with pathways characterized at the molecular levels. In this chapter, nitroaromatics utilization capacity of representative microbes have been discussed based on their catabolic operons and related genomes.
