{"id":199367,"date":"2022-08-09T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199367"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:04:14","slug":"researchers-identify-fungus-for-pyrene-remediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/researchers-identify-fungus-for-pyrene-remediation\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify fungus for pyrene remediation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cResearchers identify fungus for pyrene remediation\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 1st August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers at the CSIR have identified a fungus capable of removing toxic and carcinogenic Pyrene or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs) from the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Pyrene?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(PAH) consisting of four fused benzene rings. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has several carcinogenic and mutagenic properties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They originate from multiple sources including combustion of petrogenic fossil fuels and incomplete incineration of municipal wastes and biomass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They get lodged into the environmental matrices like soil, water and atmosphere resulting in widespread environmental pollution necessitating adequate remediation of contaminated environmental matrices.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have the researchers found?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have found a fungus named <strong>white-rot fungus Trametesmaxima IIPLC-32<\/strong> which has the potential to cause microbial degradation of pyrene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing on dead plants, this fungus causes pyrene degradation using special enzymes. This fungus also acts to decrease the pollution level of the soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, this fungus may prove to be helpful in the remediation of pyrene.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cResearchers identify fungus for pyrene remediation\u201d published in Down To Earth on 1st August 2022. What is the News? Researchers at the CSIR have identified a fungus capable of removing toxic and carcinogenic Pyrene or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs) from the environment. What is Pyrene? Pyrene is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/researchers-identify-fungus-for-pyrene-remediation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers identify fungus for pyrene remediation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-199367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704905860},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}