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Main Title Development of water and soil treatment technology based on the utilization of a white-rot, wood rotting fungus /
Author Glaser, J. A.
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Glaser, John A.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Lab.
Publisher Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 1988
Report Number EPA-600/D-88-143
Stock Number PB88-238175
OCLC Number 55704633
Subjects Bioremediation ; Hazardous waste site remediation ; In situ remediation
Additional Subjects Water pollution ; Fungi ; Biodeterioration ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Detoxification ; Life cycles ; Metabolism ; Lignin ; DDT ; Chlorobenzenes ; Insecticides ; Phanerochaete chrysosporium ; Wood rotting fungus ; Hazardous wastes ; Polychlorinated biphenyls ; Biphenyl/perchloro ; Land pollution ; Water pollution control ; Industrial waste treatment ; Toxic substances
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ELBD RPS EPA 600-D-88-143 repository copy AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 09/01/2020
NTIS  PB88-238175 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation ii, 29 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
The wood rotting fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been selected as a candidate species to be used as a degrader of hazardous waste organic constituents found in liquids and soils. The selection of the species is attributable to its rapid growth, its ability to degrade lignin rapidly, its ability to asexually multiply, and its high temperature optimum. Based on the fungus' ability to degrade lignin several investigators speculated that the fungus should be able to degrade aromatic organic constituents found in hazardous waste. Early studies with the polychlorinated biphenyl mixture Arochlor 1254, DDT, Lindane and other chlorinated contaminants indicated that the fungus may have exceptional degradative abilities. The lignin degrading ability of the fungus is a secondary metabolic cycle that is controlled by the absence of certain nutrients.
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"EPA-600/D-88-143." August 1988. Also distributed by National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as PB88-238175.