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Till the late nineteenth century, all the dyes used were more or less natural with main sources like plants, insects and molluscs, and were mostly prepared on a small scale. It was only after 1856 that with Perkin’s historic discovery of the first synthetic dye, mauveine was manufactured on a large scale. At present there are more than 100,000 commercial dyes available with a estimated production of 7 × 105–1 × 106 tons per year (Robinson et al., Bioresour Technol 77:247–255, 2001). These dyes are used extensively in the paper, clothing, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Because of the diversity of the dye components available for synthesis, a large number of structurally different synthetic dyes are today utilized for coloration. Among synthetic dyes, azo dyes are the largest and versatile class of dyes which account for more than 50 % of the dyes produced annually

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We are thankful to Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for providing the DST-INSPIRE fellowship (IF 110419) to Tallika L. Patel.

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Dave, S.R., Patel, T.L., Tipre, D.R. (2015). Bacterial Degradation of Azo Dye Containing Wastes. In: Singh, S. (eds) Microbial Degradation of Synthetic Dyes in Wastewaters. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10942-8_3

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