Table 9.1 Heavy metals mycoremediation by different group of fungi. (Adapted and modified
from Archana and Jaitly 2015)
Fungi
Metal remediate
References
Zygomycota
Circinella sp.
Ni
Alpat et al. (2010)
Cunnighamella
echinulata
Pb, Cu
El-Morsy (2004)
Mucor hiemalis
Cd, Cr
Cabuk et al. (2005)
M.rouxii
Pb, Cd, Ni
Majumdar et al. (2010)
Rhizopus arrhizus
Pb, Cr, Cd, Ni
Fourest and Roux (1992)
R. cohnii
Cd
Luo et al. (2010)
R. nigricans
Pb, Cr, Zn
Bai and Abraham (2001)
R. oryzae
Cu, Cd
Mishra and Malik (2014)
Ascomycota
Aspergillus flavus
Cu, Ni, Pb
Thippeswamy et al. (2012)
Aspergillus foetidus Cr
Prasenjit and Sumathi (2005)
A. fumigatus
Cu, Cd, Co, Ni, Pb
Rao et al. (2005) and Oladipo et al. (2016)
A. luchuensis
Cu, Cd
Hassanein et al. (2012)
A. nidulans
Ar, Cu, Cd, Pb
Maheswari and Murugesan (2009) and Oladipo
et al. (2016)
A. niger
Cd, Pb, Cu, Cr, Ar
Pal et al. (2010)
A. oryzae
Cr
Nasseri et al. (2002)
A. terreus
Pb, Cu, Ni, Cr
Seshikala and Charya (2012) and Oladipo et al.
(2016)
A. tubingensis
Cu, Cd, Pb, Ar
Oladipo et al. (2016)
A. ustus
Cu
Alothman et al. (2020)
A. versicolor
Cr, Ni, Cu
Tastan et al. (2010)
Candida species
Cu, Cr, Pb, Ar, Ag,
Co, Cd, Hg
Acosta-Rodriguez et al. (2018) and
Pattanapipitpaisal et al. (2001)
Cladosporium sp.
Cu
Gadd and de Rome (1988)
Curvularia lunata
Cu, Cd, Cr
El-Gendy et al. (2011)
Drechslera
hawaiiensis
Cu, Cd
El-Gendy et al. (2011)
Monacrosporium
elegans
Cu, Cd
El-Gendy et al. (2011)
Neurospora crassa
Pb, Cu
Ismail et al. (2005)
Penicillium
canescens
Cd, Pb, As, Hg
Say et al. (2003)
P. chrysogenum
Cr, Ni, Cu, Pb, Cd
Tan and Cheng (2003) and Skowronski et al.
(2001)
P. decumbens
Cd, Ni, Cr
Levinskaite (2001)
P. digitatum
Cd, Cu, Pb
Galun et al. (1987)
P. lilacium
Cu, Cd
El-Gendy et al. (2011)
P. simplicissimum
Cd, Pb
Fan et al. (2008)
Pestalotiopsis
clavispora
Cu, Cd
El-Gendy et al. (2011)
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