Mycoremediation of Textile Euent: A Toxicological Evaluation and its Possible Correlation with COD Geetanjali Rajhans Siksha O Anusandhan University Adyasa Barik Siksha O Anusandhan University Sudip Sen Biostadt India Ltd. Amrita Masanta Siksha O Anusandhan University Naresh Sahoo Siksha O Anusandhan University Sangeeta Raut (
[email protected] ) Siksha O Anusandhan University Research Article Keywords: BOD, COD, Color, LC-MS, Toxicity, XRD Posted Date: March 26th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-356935/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Scientic Reports on August 5th, 2021. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94666-8. 1 Mycoremediation of textile effluent: A toxicological evaluation and its possible correlation with COD 2 Geetanjali Rajhansa, Adyasa Barika, Sudip Kumar Senb, Amrita Masantaa, Naresh Kumar Sahooc, Sangeeta Rauta* 3 aCenter for Biotechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), 4 Bhubaneswar -751003, Odisha, India 5 bBiostadt India Limited, Waluj, Aurangabad-431136, Maharashtra, India 6 cDepartment of Chemistry, ITER, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar -751003, Odisha, 7 India 8 9 *Corresponding author: Center for Biotechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan 10 (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar -751003, Odisha, India 11 Email address:
[email protected] (S. Raut), 9438450789 12 13 Abstract 14 15 Globally, textile industries are one of the major sectors releasing dye pollutants. This is the first report on the 16 positive correlation between toxicity and COD of textile effluent along with the proposed pathway for enzymatic 17 degradation of acid orange 10 using Geotrichum candidum within a very short stretch of time (18h).