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The Role of Fungi and Genes for the Removal of Environmental Contaminants from Water/Wastewater Treatment Plants

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Fungal Biotechnology and Bioengineering

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Globally fungi have the ecological and biochemical capability to reduce organic and inorganic chemicals and to decrease the risk associated with contaminants, either by chemical alteration or by manipulating chemical bioavailability in wastewater. Moreover, the abundance functional gene seemed to reflect the type of the contamination. With optimized assays, the gene abundances can be used to assess bioremediation efficacy. Since the DNA-based PCR methods are faster than long laboratory incubation for mineralization assays, they provide an additional efficient tool in the monitoring of bioremediation efficiency.

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Mawad, A.M.M., Hesham, A.EL., Khan, S., Nawab, J. (2020). The Role of Fungi and Genes for the Removal of Environmental Contaminants from Water/Wastewater Treatment Plants. In: Hesham, AL., Upadhyay, R., Sharma, G., Manoharachary, C., Gupta, V. (eds) Fungal Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41870-0_15

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