Role of Cultivated Mushrooms in Bioremediation: A Review

Author: Sachitanand Das, Siddhanta Kumar Bisoyi, Anmoldeep, Debasis Pattnaik and Seweta Srivastava*

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Abstract

Environmental pollution with synthetic organic compounds has become a hazardous issue world-wide. Thus, efforts are greatly required for bioremediation of soil pollutants and for the present scenario of excessive use of harmful chemicals. A rapid cost effective and ecologically responsible method of clean-up is “bioremediation” which utilizes micro-organisms to degrade toxic pollutants is an efficient economical approach. It has been exposed newly that the mycelia of edible mushroom will hit a great performance within the reclamation of defective surroundings (myco-restoration) through myco-filtration (using mycelia to filter water or mycelia area unit used as a filter to get rid of cyanogenic materials and microorganisms from water within the soil), myco-forestry, mycoremediation, and myco-pesticides. As we all know that mushroom forming fungi, are amongst nature's most powerful decomposers, secreting strong extra cellular enzymes due to their aggressive growth and biomass product

Keywords

Biodegradation, Bioremediation, Fungi, Mushrooms, Pollutants

Conclusion

As we all know due to the powerful enzymatic activities as well as high adaptability under physically harsh conditions, microbial bioremediation and biodegradation is one of the most focused research areas for sustainable developments. So, as per the above contexts, it is concluded that mushroom cultivation got much more attention in the field of biodegradation and bioremediation research. The use of mushrooms with beneficial bacterial strain could help to degrade pollutants at faster rates. For future prospects, identification of such genes that are responsible for biodegradation of pollutants and the introduction of such genes to the indigenous strain could solve the availability of capable strain under field conditions. For future research, there is critical need to make connection among the researchers of interdisciplinary research fields like biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry, and genetic engineering could help to develop a successful technique for bioremediations.

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How to cite this article

Das, S., Bisoyi, S.K., Anmoldeep, Pattnaik, D. and Srivastava, S. (2021). Role of Cultivated Mushrooms in Bioremediation: A Review. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(1): 160-168.