Screening of wood rotting fungi potentially useful for the degradation of organic pollutants

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-210

  Rigas, F ^a   Marchant, R ^b   Dritsa, V ^a   Kapsanaki Gotsi, E ^c   Gonou Zagou, Z ^c   Avramides, E J ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Bioremediation; Biosorption; Decontamination; Ligninolytic activity; Organochlorines; White rot fungi

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; FUNGUS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; SOIL POLLUTION;

FUNGI; PHANEROCHAETE;

EID: 4344574863     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023994121108     Document Type: Review

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