Role of Fungi in Bioremediation

Abstract

Many chemical compounds in nature which discharged by human activities like oil spills and hydrocarbons, contain a toxic metal which consider a hazardous material against environment [1]. The nature is a huge ecological niche to fungi and bacteria which play an important role as decomposers of dead materials and converts organic matters into carbon dioxide and mineral molecules. Microorganisms have evolved a high degree of metabolic versatility that allows them to use a diverse range of organic substrates and large molecules from different complex chemicals present in nature such as hydrocarbons via activity of fungi which needs carbon source for their metabolic pathways in glycolysis process to produce primary and secondary metabolites.