Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 2, Pages 177-183Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8524(03)00037-3
Keywords
phenanthrene; co-culture; sugarcane bagasse pith; fungi; bacteria
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Sixteen co-cultures composed of four bacteria and four fungi grown on sugarcane bagasse pith were tested for phenanthrene degradation in soil. The four bacteria were identified as Pseudomonas aeruginose, Ralstonia pickettii, Pseudomonas sp. and Pseudomonas cepacea. The four fungi were identified as: Penicillium sp., Trichoderma viride, Alternaria tenuis and Aspergillus terrus that were previously isolated from different hydrocarbon-contaminated soils. Fungi had a statistically significant positive (0.0001 < p) effect on phenanthrene removal, that ranged from 35% to 50% and bacteria removed the compound by an order of 20%. Co-cultures B. cepacea-Penicillium sp., R. pickettii-Penicillium sp., and P. aeruginose-Penicillium sp. exhibited synergism for phenanthrene removal, reaching 72.84 +/- 3.85%, 73.61 +/- 6.38% and 69.47 +/- 4.91%; in 18 days, respectively. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available