Mycoremediation is a Potential Strategy for Environmental Clean-up of Heavy Metal: A Review

Abstract

Living organisms are under serious threat from environmental contamination as because of the recent growth of industry. Heavy metals are dumped into the water body by many enterprises. Heavy metals can be harmful to humans, cause various diseases and endanger the aquatic ecosystem. Hence, removing heavy metals from wastewater is a difficult task. Because to its low cost, high biomass, and environmentally beneficial nature, mycoremediation—the biosorption of heavy metals using fungi is a commonly utilized method. Comparing fungal biomass to other biosorbents, it can be found more easily as an industrial waste product and offers benefits economically. The majority of fungi used to remove heavy metals don’t show pathogenicity and can be utilized with no problems regarding safety. A number of factors, including pH, metal ion concentration, biomass content, and temperature, have a significant impact on fungal biosorption. In addition to providing information on biosorption techniques and a functional group of fungi involved in the removal of various heavy metals, this review study focused on facts obtained and disseminated on numerous fungal adsorbents that are essential for heavy metal removal.