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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue -, Pages 268-278Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.03.006
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- Ministry of Science and Culture in Hannover, Germany [Zn 2043]
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the BEST-Research Framework [PtJ0033L033A-IO-A5]
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Fungal ligninolytic enzymes have broad biotechnological applications. Particularly laccases and certain fungal class II peroxidases from white-rot basidiomycetes are considered in degradation of persistent organic pollutants. Promising processes with reusable immobilized laccases in special reactors have been developed up to pilot scale for degradation of pollutants in water. Bioremediation of chemically complex soils with their large indigenous microbial communities is more difficult. Living fungi and their enzymes are employed. Bioaugmentation, introduction of for example white-rots for enzyme production into a polluted soil, and biostimulation of suitable resident organisms by nutritional manipulations are strategies in degradation of pollutants in soil. Bioaugmentation has been successfully implemented on small scale for soils in biobeds and for specific materials such as olive mill wastes.
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