Journal
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 409, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124476
Keywords
Pesticide; Bioremediation; Fungal reactor; Biodegradation products; Suspect screen i n g
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Funding
- Spanish State Research Agency of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the project BECAS [CTM2016-75587-C2-1-R, CTM2016-75587-C2-2-R]
- EU [727450]
- Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) [2017-SGR-01404]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CEX2018-000794-S]
- Chinese Scholarship Council
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This study demonstrates the potential of Trametes versicolor in removing bentazone from water, with the involvement of laccase and cytochrome P450 enzymatic systems. A total of 19 transformation products were identified during the degradation process, involving various types of chemical reactions.
Bentazone, an herbicide widely applied in rice and cereal crops, is widespread in the aquatic environment. This study evaluated the capacity of Trametes versicolor to remove bentazone from water. The fungus was able to completely remove bentazone after three days at Erlenmeyer-scale incubation. Both laccase and cytochrome P450 enzymatic systems were involved in bentazone degradation. A total of 19 transformation products (TPs) were identified to be formed during the process. The reactions involved in their formation included hydroxylations, oxidations, methylations, N-nitrosation, and dimerization. A laccase mediated radical mechanism was proposed for TP formation. In light of the results obtained at the Erlenmeyer scale, a trickle-bed reactor with T. versicolor immobilized on pine wood chips was set up to evaluate its stability during bentazone removal under non-sterile conditions. After 30 days of sequencing batch operation, an average bentazone removal of 48% was obtained, with a considerable contribution of adsorption onto the lignocellulosic support material. Bacterial contamination, which is the bottleneck in the implementation of fungal bioreactors, was successfully addressed by this particular system according to its maintained performance. This research is a pioneering step forward to the implementation of fungal bioremediation on a real scale.
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