Extraction and exploration of petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) to satisfy the rising world
population's fossil fuel demand is playing havoc with human beings and other life forms by …

Environmental awareness has resulted in development of regulatory measures that aim to
straighten past mistakes and protect the environment from future contamination and …

Highlights•Non-ligninolytic fungi may play an important role in bioremediation
processes.•Studies show that they can degrade chlorinated and polycyclic aromatic …

We investigated the potential for petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation by 95 bacterial and
160 fungal strains isolated from a former petrochemical plant. We tested whether soil origin …

CODEN: JEBIDP serious problem in developing countries due to their growing population
(Ijah, 2003). Generally, PAHs contamination occurs by crude and refined oil which arises …

Fungal bioremediation is a promising technique for the cleanup of sites contaminated with
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, due to limited understanding of the …

Bioremediation of marine environment could be the response to oil spills threats. In the
present study the fungal community from a Mediterranean marine site chronically interested …

The present study evaluated the removal efficiency of two dyes, Congo red (CR) and
malachite green (MG), using either fresh or dry fungal biomass of two species of …

A degrading microbial consortium highly tolerant to three-, four-and five-ring polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was selected from 50 fungal and bacterial isolates obtained …

Trichoderma asperellum H15, a previously isolated strain characterized by its high tolerance
to low (LMW) and high molecular weight (HMW) PAHs, was tested for its ability to degrade 3 …