investigating the decomposition of crop residues using woodborn and soilborn saprophytic fungi this experiment was conduceted to evaluate the effect of some fungi on decomposition of crop residues. crop residues from rice, wheat, cotton, canola and soybean were inoculated with pleurotus ostreatus, phanerochaete chrysoporium, aspergillus niger and trichoderma viride in vitro. after 30 days, hemi...

Untreated pharmaceutical pollution and their possibly toxic metabolites, resulting from overloaded wastewater treatment processes, end up in aquatic environments are hazardous to the ecosystem homeostasis. Biological remediation could supplement traditional methods overcome release of these biologically active compounds environment. Mycoremediation is especially promising due unspecific nature ...

Manganese peroxidase (MnP) is a heme-containing enzyme produced by white-rot fungi and is part of the extracellular lignin degrading system in these organisms. MnP is unique among Mn binding enzymes in its ability to bind and oxidize Mn(II) and efficiently release Mn(III). Initial site-directed mutagenesis studies identified the residues E35, E39, and D179 as the Mn binding ligands. However, an...

Phanerochaete is a genus of resupinate homobasidiomycetes that are saprophytic on woody debris and logs. Morphological studies in the past indicated that Phanerochaete is a heterogeneous assemblage of species. In this study the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA was used to test the monophyly of the genus Phanerocthaete and to infer phylogenetic relationships ...

Phanerochaete chyrsosporium is a white rot fungus with high heavy metal accumulating ability. In this regard, the present study was planned to assess the Ni (II) remediation potential of live immobilized Phanerochaete chyrsosporium from aqueous solutions as well as from real hazardous effluents. The effects of pH, dose, initial metal concentration, time, temperature etc. on bioremediation poten...