Advances in mycoremediation of emerging potential toxic effluents

Abstract

One of the major problems faced by the mother earth since the advent of industrial revolution is by-products and toxic effluents. Multi-dimensional research is going on to get rid of these by-products and toxic effluent and even researchers are working to get something useful out of it, which include chemical processes such as incineration, pyrolysis, biological process like bioremediation through bacteria and other biological agents. Now a new horizon in treating these effluents is bioremediation with the help of fungi, some call it mycoremediation. What make fungi an ideal candidate for bioremediation are its enzymes which are not very specific. Fungi makes the arsenal more diverse when it comes to bioremediation because many a time most used agent for bioremediation i.e. bacteria didn’t work on certain compounds, fungi can be a handy option. Fungi becomes even more promising candidate for the solution of this problem (toxic effluents) when other potential non-conventional candidate are taken into consideration other than the conventional ones. This mycoremediation area looks even more promising when we shift our attention to fungi of marine habitat which are having huge diversity which will further expand the ocean of possibilities. © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.