Analysing The Evolution of Fungal Strains in Textile Dyes

MICROBIOLOGY

The potential of 10 indigenous fungi isolated from soil samples of dye disposal sites was evaluated to decolorize textile azo dyes viz., Reactive Blue MR, Orange M2R, Yellow M4G, Black HFGR and Red M8B. In pure culture, it was observed that Humicola insolens, H. brevis, Aspergillus terrus, A. flavus, A. niger and Rhizopus sp. were efficient in decolorizing textile dyes. The study also depicted that Rhizopus sp. was highly efficient in decolorizing (81.01%) a mixture of 5 dyes used in the present investigation followed by a fungal con- sortium consisting of all the ten fungal strains (78.73%). Recalcitrant dye yellow M4G was also efficiently degraded by fungal consortium (55.76%) compared to pure cultures. This study reinforces the potential of indigenous adapted fungal consortia for the decolorization of textile effluents.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.