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- Title
Bioremediation potential of hydrocarbon-utilizing fungi from select marine niches of India.
- Authors
Barnes, Natasha; Khodse, Vishwas; Lotlikar, Nikita; Meena, Ram; Damare, Samir
- Abstract
Ten fungal isolates with an ability to degrade crude oil were isolated from select marine substrates, such as mangrove sediments, Arabian Sea sediments, and tarballs. Out of the ten isolates, six belonged to Aspergillus, two to Fusarium and one each to Penicillium and Acremonium as identified using ITS rDNA sequencing. The selected ten fungal isolates were found to degrade the long-chain n-alkanes as opposed to short-chain n-alkanes from the crude oil. Mangrove fungus #NIOSN-M126 ( Penicillium citrinum) was found to be highly efficient in biodegradation of crude oil, reducing the total crude oil content by 77% and the individual n-alkane fraction by an average of 95.37%, indicating it to be a potential candidate for the development into a bioremediation agent.
- Subjects
HYDROCARBON content of marine sediments; ISOLATION of biotechnological microorganisms; BIODEGRADATION of petroleum; MARINE sediment microbiology; BIOREMEDIATION; MANGROVE ecology
- Publication
3 Biotech, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2190-572X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13205-017-1043-8