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Mycoremediation: An Alternative Treatment Strategy for Heavy Metal-Laden Wastewater

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Industrial wastewater containing heavy metals constitutes a major source of contamination in the environment. Remediation of toxic metals from wastewater has been a challenge since long. Several physicochemical techniques are used to detoxify metal polluted sites. However, these traditional techniques are cost prohibitive due to use of chemical compounds , expensive and release of secondary toxic solid waste . Biosorption is a metabolism-independent and cost-effective method for removal of toxic metals from discharged liquid waste. Application of fungal biomass as biosorbent for toxic metal remediation has gained interest because of high surface to volume ratio, enough availability, rapid biosorption/desorption efficiency , and cost competitiveness. This chapter presents an overview of heavy metal biosorption studies performed on few potential fungal sorbents.

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Verma, T., Maurya, A., Tripathi, M., Garg, S.K. (2017). Mycoremediation: An Alternative Treatment Strategy for Heavy Metal-Laden Wastewater. In: Satyanarayana, T., Deshmukh, S., Johri, B. (eds) Developments in Fungal Biology and Applied Mycology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4768-8_17

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