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Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Fungal Biology
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Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade
waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents)
into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological
processes. Remediation through fungi-or mycoremediation-has
multifarious possibilities in applied remediation engineering and
the future of environmental sustainability. Fungi have the
biochemical and ecological capability to degrade environmental
organic chemicals and to decrease the risk associated with metals,
semi-metals, noble metals, and radionuclides, either by chemical
modification or by manipulating chemical bioavailability.
Additionally, the capability of these fungi to form extended
mycelia networks, the low specificity of their catabolic enzymes,
and their using pollutants as a growth substrate make these fungi
well suited for bioremediation processes. Their mycelia exhibit the
robustness of adapting to highly limiting environmental conditions
often experienced in the presence of persistent pollutants, which
makes them more useful compared to other microbes. However, despite
dominating the living biomass in soil and being abundant in aquatic
ecosystems, fungi have not been exploited for the bioremediation of
such environments. This book covers the various types of fungi and
associated fungal processes used to clean up waste and wastewaters
in contaminated environments and discusses future potential
applications.
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