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Decolourisation of diverse industrial dyes by some Phlebia spp. and their comparison with Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Author(s) -
Arora Daljit Singh,
Chander Mukesh
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of basic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0233-111X
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.200410391
Subject(s) - phanerochaete , chrysosporium , orange (colour) , agar , alizarin red , incubation , chemistry , food science , agar plate , botany , biology , enzyme , staining , biochemistry , bacteria , genetics
Three species of Phlebia, viz. P. brevispora , P. fascicularia and P. floridensis have been evaluated for their potential to decolourise eight industrial dyes including; reactive yellow, reactive orange, reactive red, rathidol scarlet, coracryl black, coracryl pink, coracryl violet and coracryl red. The cultures used for the present study were pre adapted by growing these on yeast glucose agar medium supplemented with Poly–R 478, a reference dye. The fungal cultures were grown in mineral salts broth and harvested after different incubation periods to obtain their cell free enzyme extracts which were then used to assess their ability to decolourise the above mentioned dyes. The extracts obtained from the cultures grown for six days significantly decolourised the tested dyes. The study revealed Phlebia spp. to be better dye decolourisers than Phanerochaete chrysosporium . (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)