Organophosphate pesticides an emerging environmental contaminant: Pollution, toxicity, bioremediation progress, and remaining challenges

H Mali, C Shah, BH Raghunandan, AS Prajapati… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organophosphates (OPs) are an integral part of modern agriculture; however, due to
overexploitation, OPs pesticides residues are leaching and accumulating in the soil, and …

An inclusive outlook on the fate and persistence of pesticides in the environment and integrated eco-technologies for their degradation

YS Chaudhari, P Kumar, S Soni, A Gacem… - Toxicology and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Intensive and inefficient exploitation of pesticides through modernized agricultural practices
has caused severe pesticide contamination problems to the environment and become a …

Chlorpyrifos degradation using binary fungal strains isolated from industrial waste soil

A Kumar, A Sharma, P Chaudhary, S Gangola - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
Chlorpyrifos is a broad-spectrum organophosphate pesticide and used frequently on
different cropping systems to control phytopathogens. Being a hazardous substance …

Laccase production by Pleurotus ostreatus using cassava waste and its application in remediation of phenolic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated …

VV Kumar, S Venkataraman, PS Kumar, J George… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The treatment of contaminants from lignocellulosic biorefinery effluent has recently been
identified as a unique challenge. This study focuses on removing phenolic contaminants …

Green remediation potential of immobilized oxidoreductases to treat halo-organic pollutants persist in wastewater and soil matrices-A way forward

A Sharma, LAB Vázquez, EOM Hernández… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The alarming presence of hazardous halo-organic pollutants in wastewater and soils
generated by industrial growth, pharmaceutical and agricultural activities is a major …

Characterization of a Novel Laccase LAC-Yang1 from White-Rot Fungus Pleurotus ostreatus Strain Yang1 with a Strong Ability to Degrade and Detoxify …

X Liu, W Deng, Y Yang - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, a laccase LAC-Yang1 was successfully purified from a white-rot fungus strain
Pleurotus ostreatus strain yang1 with high laccase activity. The enzymatic properties of LAC …

A novel organophosphate hydrolase from Arthrobacter sp. HM01: characterization and applications

H Mali, C Shah, DM Rudakiya, DH Patel, U Trivedi… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioremediation systems coupled to efficient microbial enzymes have emerged as an
attractive approach for the in-situ removal of hazardous organophosphates (OPs) pesticides …

Laccases—versatile enzymes used to reduce environmental pollution

G Paraschiv, M Ferdes, M Ionescu, G Moiceanu… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The accumulation of waste and toxic compounds has become increasingly harmful to the
environment and human health. In this context, the use of laccases has become a focus of …

Laccase-driven transformation of high priority pesticides without redox mediators: towards bioremediation of contaminated wastewaters

VK Vaithyanathan, VK Vaidyanathan… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this study, Pleurotus dryinus was grown on municipal biosolids (BS) as the substrate to
produce laccase for the removal of pesticides (fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides) from …

Mushroom ligninolytic enzymes―features and application of potential enzymes for conversion of lignin into bio-based chemicals and materials

S Kim - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mushroom ligninolytic enzymes are attractive biocatalysts that can degrade lignin through
oxido-reduction. Laccase, lignin peroxidase, manganese peroxidase, and versatile …