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Role of Bacterial Consortia in Bioremediation of Textile Recalcitrant Compounds

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Waste Bioremediation

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The increasing industrial demand for remediating the textile wastewater in an effective way has led to the pervasive acceptance of bioremediation. Bioremediation techniques such as bioaccumulation, biosorption, bioaugmentation, and biodegradation utilize the biological systems to treat the textile effluents containing the recalcitrant dye molecules. Bioremediation is known to be environmentally reliable and is an alternative to the conventional decomposition techniques with the prerequisite to fulfill the efficacy and economic viability. Among the aforementioned bio-remedial measures, biodegradation of the textile dyes is the trustworthy industrial application. Biodegradation of dyes can be achieved using single bacterial strains and co-cultures/consortia. The consortial systems are proven to be advantageous over a single strain as they involve an inductive synergistic mechanism among the co-existing strains. As a result of this co-metabolism, there is a formation of different intermediate metabolites such as toxic aromatic amines which are furthermore mineralized by the other bacterial strains in the consortia.

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  2. Department of Applied Science and Technology, Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, 600025, India

    Madhava Anil Kumar, Abdur Rawoof Salma Aathika & Subramanian Sivanesan

  3. Department of Chemistry, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, 600025, India

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Kumar, M.A., Baskaralingam, P., Aathika, A.R.S., Sivanesan, S. (2018). Role of Bacterial Consortia in Bioremediation of Textile Recalcitrant Compounds. In: Varjani, S., Gnansounou, E., Gurunathan, B., Pant, D., Zakaria, Z. (eds) Waste Bioremediation. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7413-4_8

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