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Research Article

Biosorption of Heavy Metals onto Different Eco-Friendly Substrates

Eman M Fawzy1*, Fatma F Abdel-Motaal2 and Soad A El-Zayat2

1Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

2Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

*Corresponding Author:
Eman Mohumed Fawzy
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Science, Aswan University
Aswan, Egypt
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Received date: Febraury 27, 2017; Accepted date: April 06, 2017; Published date: April 10, 2017

Citation: Fawzy EM, Abdel-Motaal FF, El-Zayat SA (2017) Biosorption of Heavy Metals onto Different Eco-Friendly Substrates. J Bioremediat Biodegrad 8:394.doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000394

Copyright: © 2017 Fawzy EM, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Fungi play an important role in biosorption of heavy metals in heavily contaminated soils. Five metals-tolerant fungal species were isolated from two different contaminated soils (soil 1 and soil 2). The number of fungal colonies isolated from the contaminated soil 2 was higher than that of soil 1. The most resistant fungal species for the toxic studied metals (Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn) was Rhizopus stolonifier followed by Macrophomina phaseolina. It was established that the metal toxicity was related to the contamination levels, the physico-chemical properties including pH, conductivity, organic matter, and carbonate contents of the soils. This study confirmed the good ability of different chemicals (CaCO3, MO, Zeolite and phosphate) and biological fungal substrates (M. phaseolina and R. stolonifier) in bioremediation of polluted soils and reducing different heavy metals levels compared to the control, especially for fungi. M. phaseolina amendment was superior in reducing the chemically available heavy metals in the studied soils.

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