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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 841-846Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-009-0241-x
Keywords
Ergosterol; Fungal biomass; Fungal growth; Basidiomycetes; Organochlorines; Hexachlorobenzene
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- Marcelo Rogerio da Silva of the Instituto de Botanica
- Plant Physiology Section
- Foundation for the Development of the Agribusiness Research (Fundacao do Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa do Agronegocio)
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Estimating fungal growth is important in processes of soil bioremediation. It has been demonstrated that ergosterol is a good indicator of fungal biomass in solid substrata. In the present study were evaluated the effects upon the ergosterol rate of Lentinus crinitus Berk. and Psilocybe castanella Peck through the culture conditions of these fungi, which are evaluated for the bioremediation of soils contaminated by organochlorates. A good correlation between fungal biomass and ergosterol was observed for both species. The culture conditions did not influence the ergosterol rate of L. crinitus. Yet the ergosterol rate of P. castanella was influenced from 35 days of culture and when grown in the presence of 15.00 g hexachlorobenzene l(-1) of culture medium. So it is possible to estimate growth of both species using ergosterol as indicator in processes of soil bioremediation since the influences observed in the ergosterol rate of P. castanella are considered.
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