ReviewBiodegradation2024
Myco-remediation of plastic pollution: current knowledge and future prospects.
Review in Biodegradation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Plastic-Degrading Microorganisms: Biodegradation Pathways and Habitat Origins.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Biodegradation Mechanisms and Sustainable Governance of Marine Polypropylene Microplastics.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Environmental and Ecological Monitoring with Biodegradable Technologies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Metagenomic insights into microbial diversity, xenobiotic and plastic-degrading enzymes in sediments of river Yamuna at Agra.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- AlphaFold modeling uncovers global structural features of class I and class II fungal hydrophobins.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Article
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- Linking the Metabolic Activity of Plastic-Degrading Fungi to Their Taxonomy and Evolution.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Biodegradation Efficacy ofPolymers · 2025Article
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- Toxicological qualities and detoxification trends of fruit by-products for valorization: A review.Open life sciences · 2025Review
- Feels Like Home: A Biobased and Biodegradable Plastic Offers a Novel Habitat for Diverse Plant Pathogenic Fungi in Temperate Forest Ecosystems.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Biodegradation: the best solution to the world problem of discarded polymers.Bioresources and bioprocessing · 2024Review
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Abstract
To date, enumerable fungi have been reported to participate in the biodegradation of several notorious plastic materials following their isolation from soil of plastic-dumping sites, marine water, waste of mulch films, landfills, plant parts and gut of wax moth. The general mechanism begins with formation of hydrophobin and biofilm proceding to secretion of specific plastic degarding enzymes (peroxidase, hydrolase, protease and urease), penetration of three dimensional substrates and mineralization of plastic polymers into harmless products. As a result, several synthetic polymers including polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyurethane and/or bio-degradable plastics have been validated to deteriorate within months through the action of a wide variety of fungal strains predominantly Ascomycota (Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Penicillium spp.). Understanding the potential and mode of operation of these organisms is thus of prime importance inspiring us to furnish an up to date view on all the presently known fungal strains claimed to mitigate the plastic waste problem. Future research henceforth needs to be directed towards metagenomic approach to distinguish polymer degrading microbial diversity followed by bio-augmentation to build fascinating future of waste disposal.
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