Recent advances in microbial metal bioaccumulation

A Mishra, A Malik - Critical reviews in environmental science and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Removal of hazardous metals through biological means has received considerable attention
in the last few decades. Nevertheless, only a fraction of these studies employed growing …

Novel fungal consortium for bioremediation of metals and dyes from mixed waste stream

A Mishra, A Malik - Bioresource technology, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study is targeted towards development of a three member fungal consortium for
effective removal of metals [Cr 6+ and Cu 2+] and dyes [AB and PO] from mixed waste …

Aspergillus: Sex and Recombination

J Varga, G Szigeti, N Baranyi, S Kocsubé… - Mycopathologia, 2014 - Springer
The genus Aspergillus is one of the most widespread groups of fungi on Earth, comprised of
about 300–350 species with very diverse lifestyles. Most species produce asexual …

Simultaneous bioaccumulation of multiple metals from electroplating effluent using Aspergillus lentulus

A Mishra, A Malik - Water research, 2012 - Elsevier
Toxic impacts of heavy metals in the environment have lead to intensive research on various
methods of heavy metal remediation. However, in spite of abundant work on heavy metals …

Exploring pellet forming filamentous fungi as tool for harvesting non-flocculating unicellular microalgae

SK Prajapati, P Kumar, A Malik, P Choudhary - BioEnergy research, 2014 - Springer
Recently, fungal pelletization-assisted microalgal harvesting has emerged as new research
area for minimizing the harvesting cost and energy inputs in the algae-to-biofuel approach …

Discovery of a sexual cycle in Aspergillus lentulus, a close relative of A. fumigatus

SS Swilaiman, CM O'Gorman, SA Balajee… - Eukaryotic cell, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aspergillus lentulus was described in 2005 as a new species within the A. fumigatus sensu
lato complex. It is an opportunistic human pathogen causing invasive aspergillosis with high …

Biosorption of Textile Dye by Aspergillus lentulus Pellets: Process Optimization and Cyclic Removal in Aerated Bioreactor

P Kaushik, A Mishra, A Malik, KK Pant - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014 - Springer
The present study was conducted to maximize the biosorption of dye by utilizing the native
(untreated) pellets of Aspergillus lentulus. The native (55.0 mg/g) and heat-treated (56.7 …

Metal and dye removal using fungal consortium from mixed waste stream: optimization and validation

A Mishra, A Malik - Ecological engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Response surface methodology (RSM) involving two-level-three factors (2 3) full factorial
design of experiment (DOE) was employed to optimize the concentrations of three media …

Biomass of Termitomyces clypeatus for chromium(III) removal from chrome tanning wastewater

A Fathima, R Aravindhan, JR Rao, BU Nair - Clean Technologies and …, 2015 - Springer
Chrome tanning wastewater generated during leather processing is one of the major source
of aquatic contamination which has deleterious effect on the environment. To deal this …

Production and shelf life evaluation of storable myco-granules for multiple environmental applications

P Kaushik, A Mishra, A Malik, S Sharma - International Biodeterioration & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present work describes a novel attempt to produce myco-granules targeted for multiple
industrial applications including dye and heavy metal sequestration and xylanase …