National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Present work describes macroscopic and microscopic characterization of 41 fungi and enumerates their potential to sorb precious metals, namely; Ag(I), Au (III) and Pd(II). Fungal biomass included, 29 of Aspergillus, 5 from Mucor, 1 Rhizopus and 4 different unidentified micro-fungi and 2 mushrooms. Maximum and minimum biomass was produced by isolate SRD7 and isolate SRD17 respectively. Isolate SRD49, was the most efficient, while, SRD39 was the least efficient in sugar utilization. Number of fungi capable of Ag(I), Au(III) and Pd(II) sorption reduces as percent sorption increases. Overall, fungi had much variation in their precious metal sorption ability. Variation for precious metal sorption was in the order Ag(I)>Au(III)>Pd(II). Ag(I), Au(III) and Pd(II) sorption ranged between 6.88-79.48, 7.47- 56.74 and 22.66-40.3%, respectively.
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