@article{ijebb2015324,
author={AI-Jawhari, Ihsan Flayyih Hasan},
title={Decolorization of Methylene Blue and Crystal Violet by Some Filamentous Fungi},
journal={International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation & Biodegradation},
volume={3},
number={2},
pages={62--65},
year={2015},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijebb/3/2/4},
issn={2333-8636},
abstract={Five strains of filamentous fungi were studied to ability a removal of Methylene Blue (MB) and Crystal Violet (CV). These fungi were <i>Rhizopus</i><i> </i><i>stolinifer</i><i>, </i><i>Aspergillus</i><i> </i><i>fumigates</i><i>, </i><i>Aspergillus</i><i> </i><i>niger</i><i>, </i><i>Fusarium</i><i> </i><i>solani</i><i> </i>and <i>Penicillium funigulosum</i><i>.</i><i> </i><i>F</i><i>. solani</i><i> </i>and <i>P.funigulosum</i><i> </i>showed that decolorization activity was higher than that of remaining 3 fungi on solid medium containing Methylene blue, although MB did not appear to interfere with the mycelia growth of <i>A.fumigatus</i><i>, </i>this fungus was not able to effectively decolorize MB. In the present study all fungi strains showed a poor ability to decolorize Crystal violet, However the ability of <i>A.fumigatus</i><i> </i>to decolorization of CV reached to 0.009, this fungus was higher than other fungi. Although CV did not appear to interfere with the mycelia of <i>R.stolinifer</i><i> </i>and <i>F.solani</i><i>, </i>these fungi that not able to effectively decolorize CV. There was a significance differences recorded with decolorization. The results showed that the dry weight of <i>F.solani</i><i> </i>was higher than other fungi, the dry weight of this fungus reached to 0.092 gm with MB, and in the same time the dry weight of <i>A.niger</i><i> </i>reached to 0.52 gm with CV. There was no significance recorded in dry weights of fungi at the 7 days of incubation.},
doi={10.12691/ijebb-3-2-4}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}