Published in Scientific Bulletin. Series F. Biotechnologies, Vol. XIX
Written by Ovidiu IORDACHE, Calina Petruta CORNEA, Camelia DIGUTA, Iuliana DUMITRESCU, Mariana FERDES
Fungal biomass has the ability to decolorize textile industry wastewaters by a series of bio-accumulation/bio-sorption mechanisms, posing an economically promising, eco-friendly and feasible alternative to conventional methods. The present study explored the qualitative potential of previously isolated fungal strains from samples of post-finishing textile wastewater in treatment of synthetic dyes solutions based on Bemacid azo-dyes (red, yellow and blue). The analyses were carried out on solid nutritive media with 200g/L dye concentration, for 9 microbial strains. Previously isolated fungal strains were identified by ITS-RFLP method. Qualitative assessments revealed the increased tolerance of microbial isolates to textile azo-dyes, and their capacity to degrade into non-colored intermediates.
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Bioremediation
