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Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability - Volume 2 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability - Volume 2 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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. Volume 2 offers new discussion of remediation through
fungi-or mycoremediation-and its 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. Additional expanded texts
shows the capability of these fungi to form extended mycelia
networks, the low specificity of their catabolic enzymes, and their
use against pollutants as a growth substrate, making 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. Despite
dominating the living biomass in soil and being abundant in aquatic
ecosystems, however, fungi have not been exploited for the
bioremediation of such environments until this added Volume 2. 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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