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Mycoremediation<br />

15<br />

{ Pesticides }<br />

Pesticide contamination can be long-term and have a significant impact on decomposition<br />

processes and thus nutrient cycling and their degradation can be expensive and difficult.<br />

The most used fungi for helping in the degradation of such substances are white rot ones<br />

which, thanks to their extracellular ligninolytic enzymes like laccase and manganese<br />

peroxidase, are able to degrade high quantity of such components. Examples includes the<br />

insecticide endosulfan, imazalil, thiophanate methyl, ortho-phenylphenol, diphenylamine,<br />

chlorpyrifosin wastewater, atrazine in clay-loamy soils.<br />

{ Dyes }<br />

Dyes are very used in many industries, like paper printing or textile. They are often recalcitant<br />

to degradation and in some cases, like some azo dyes, cancerogenic or otherwise<br />

toxic.<br />

The mechanism the fungi degrade this dyes is their lignolityc enzymes, especially laccase,<br />

so white rot mushrooms are the most commonly used.<br />

Mycoremediation has proven to be a cheap and effective remediation technology for dyes<br />

such as Malachite green, Nigrosin and Basic fuchsin with Aspergillus niger and Phanerochaete<br />

chrysosporium and Congo red, a carcirogenic dye recalcitrant to biodegradative<br />

processes, direct blue 14 (using Pleurotus).<br />

{ Synergy with Phytoremediation }<br />

Phytoremediation is the use of plant-based technologies to decontamination an area. Most<br />

of the plants can form a symbiosis with fungi, from which both the organisms get an<br />

advantage. This relationship is called mycorrhiza.<br />

Mycorrhizal fungi, especially arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), can greatly improve<br />

the phytoremediation capacity of some plants. This is mostly because the stress the<br />

plants suffer because of the pollutants is greatly reduced in presence of AMF, so they can<br />

grow more and produce more biomass. The fungi also provide more nutrition, especially<br />

phosphorus, and promotes the overall health of the plant. The mycelium quick expansion<br />

also can greatly extend the rhizosphere influenze zone (hyphosphere), providing the<br />

plant with access to more nutrients and contaminants. Increasing the rhizosphere overall<br />

health also means a rise in the bacteria population, which can also contribute to the bioremediation<br />

process.<br />

This relationship has been proven useful with many pollutants, such as Rhizophagus intraradices<br />

and Robinia pseudoacacia in lead contaminated soil,Rhizophagus intraradices<br />

with Glomus versiforme incoulated into vetiver grass for lead removal, AMF and Calen-

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