Bioremediation and Using of Fungi in Bioremediation

Abstract

Pollutants causing environmental pollution have gained a rapid increase with the industry developing parallel to the increasing population. These pollutants both disrupt the balance of nature and affect the health of the living beings in the negative. At the present time, bioremediation has gained an important place in the studies related to the elimination of these pollutants. Bioremediation is an affordable and environmentally friendly method for converting pollutants into non-environmentally harmful products using various microorganisms. In particular, among these microorganisms, the fungi used in the bioremediation have attracted considerable attention because they decompose the pollutants into harmless products by their properties such as secreted enzymes and / or mycelia structures. In this review, it is aimed to bring together the different aspects of bioremediation and fungi that define different and new metabolic capacities and their role in bioremediation potential on a common platform. © 2018, Centenary University. All rights reserved.