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Bioremediation of biosolids with Phanerochaete chrysosporium culture filtrates enhances the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Applied Soil Ecology • 2017
Publication Information
Authors
Mohamed Taha, Esmaeil Shahsavari, Arturo Aburto-Medina, Mohamed F Foda, Bradley Clarke, Felicity Roddick, Andrew S Ball
Keywords
Biosolids
White-rot fungi
Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Laccase
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
degradation
Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer
(GC–MS)
Journal
Applied Soil Ecology
Publisher
ELSEVIER
Volume
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Issue
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Pages
1-8
publication.type
International
Paper Link
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Supplementary Materials
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Abstract
The supplementation of agricultural soils with dewatered sewage sludge represents
a technical solution not only to the disposal of the large quantities of biosolids generated
daily, but also a potential means of increasing soil fertility and productivity. However, the
presence of organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in
biosolids limits their application to agricultural soils. The application of Phanerochaete
chrysosporium, its lignocelluloytic cell-free extract, a commercial preparation of the laccase
enzyme for the enhanced removal of three PAHs (naphthalene, phenanthrene and pyrene)
at two different concentrations (1 and 10 mg g− 1 biosolids) from a biosolid sample was
assessed in terms of both PAH degradation and their impact on the microbial community of
the biosolids. The addition of P. chrysosporium biomass, a commercial laccase
a technical solution not only to the disposal of the large quantities of biosolids generated
daily, but also a potential means of increasing soil fertility and productivity. However, the
presence of organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in
biosolids limits their application to agricultural soils. The application of Phanerochaete
chrysosporium, its lignocelluloytic cell-free extract, a commercial preparation of the laccase
enzyme for the enhanced removal of three PAHs (naphthalene, phenanthrene and pyrene)
at two different concentrations (1 and 10 mg g− 1 biosolids) from a biosolid sample was
assessed in terms of both PAH degradation and their impact on the microbial community of
the biosolids. The addition of P. chrysosporium biomass, a commercial laccase