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Four marine-derived fungi for bioremediation of raw textile mill effluents

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Title Four marine-derived fungi for bioremediation of raw textile mill effluents
 
Creator Verma, A.K.
Raghukumar, C.
Verma, P.
Shouche, Y.S.
Naik, C.G.
 
Subject bioremediation
marine-derived fungi
industrial wastes
chemical oxygen demand
mangrove swamps
 
Description Textile dye effluents pose environmental hazards because of color and toxicity. Bioremediation of these has been widely attempted. However, their widely differing characteristics and high salt contents have required application of different microorganisms and high dilutions. We report here decolorization and detoxification of two raw textile effluents, with extreme variations in their pH and dye composition, used at 20-90% concentrations by each of the four marine-derived fungi. Textile effluent A (TEA) contained an azo dye and had a pH of 8.9 and textile effluent B (TEB) with a pH of 2.5 contained a mixture of eight reactive dyes. The fungi isolated from mangroves and identified by 18S and ITS sequencing corresponded to two ascomycetes and two basidiomycetes. Each of these fungi decolorized TEA by 30-60% and TEB by 33-80% used at 20-90% concentrations and salinity of 15 ppt within 6 days. This was accompanied by two to threefold reduction in toxicity as measured by LC50 values against Artemia larvae and 70-80% reduction in chemical oxygen demand and total phenolics. Mass spectrometric scan of effluents after fungal treatment revealed degradation of most of the components. The ascomycetes appeared to remove color primarily by adsorption, whereas laccase played a major role in decolorization by basidiomycetes. A process consisting of a combination of sorption by fungal biomass of an ascomycete and biodegradation by laccase from a basidiomycete was used in two separate steps or simultaneously for bioremediation of these two effluents.
 
Date 2010-03-09T11:42:02Z
2010-03-09T11:42:02Z
2010
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Biodegradation, vol.21(2); 217-233
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3559
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by Elsevier. Copyright [2010] Elsevier
 
Publisher Elsevier