Geo-Microbiology

All kinds of microbes, including Aspergillus can contribute actively to geological phenomena. Central to many such geomicrobial processes is the transformation of metals and minerals.

Microbes have a variety of properties that can effect changes in metal speciation, toxicity and mobility, as well as mineral formation, dissolution and deterioration. Such mechanisms are important components of natural biogeochemical cycles for metals as well as other associated elements in biomass, soil, rocks and minerals (e.g. sulfur and phosphorus, and metalloids, actinides and metal radionuclides).

Apart from being important in natural biosphere processes, metal and mineral transformations can have beneficial or detrimental consequences in a human context. Bioremediation is the application of biological systems to the clean-up of organic and inorganic pollution, with bacteria and fungi being the most important organisms for reclamation, immobilization or detoxification of metallic and radionuclide pollutants.


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    Author

    Year

  • Metabolic Activity of Micromycetes Affecting Urban Concrete Constructions.

    Yakovleva G, Sagadeev E, Stroganov V, Kozlova O, Okunev R, Ilinskaya O.

    2019

  • Preserving cultural heritage: Analyzing the antifungal potential of ionic liquids tested in paper restoration.

    Schmitz K, Wagner S, Reppke M, Maier CL, Windeisen-Holzhauser E, Benz JP.

    2019

  • Preventing fungal growth on heritage paper with antifungal and cellulase inhibiting magnesium oxide nanoparticles.

    Franco Castillo I, García Guillén E, M de la Fuente J, Silva F, Mitchell SG.

    2019

  • The world’s ten most feared fungi

    Kevin D. Hyde, Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi, Birgitte Andersen,Teun Boekhout, Walter Buzina, Thomas L. Dawson Jr., Dan C. Eastwood, E. B. Gareth Jones, Sybren de Hoog, Yingqian Kang, Joyce E. Longcore, Eric H. C. McKenzie, Jacques F. Meis, Laetitia Pinson-Gadais, Achala R. Rathnayaka, Florence Richard-Forget, Marc Stadler, Bart Theelen, Benjarong Thongbai, Clement K. M. Tsui.

    2018

  • Biogenic Weathering of Mineral Substrates (Review)

    Chizhikova, NP (Chizhikova, Natalia P.), Lessovaia, SN (Lessovaia, Sofia N.), Gorbushina, AA (Gorbushina, Anna A.)

    2016

  • Fungal Iron Biomineralization in Rio Tinto

    Monike Oggerin, Fernando Tornos , Nuria Rodriguez , Laura Pascual and Ricardo Amils

    2016

  • Fungal Biomineralization of Manganese as a Novel Source of Electrochemical Materials

    Qianwei Li, Daoqing Liu, Zheng Jia,Laszlo Csetenyi,Geoffrey Michael Gadd

    2016

  • Fungal weathering of asbestos in semi arid regions of India

    Bhattacharya, S (Bhattacharya, Shabori), John, PJ (John, P. J.), Ledwani, L (Ledwani, Lalita).

    2016

  • Post-Chernobyl surveys of radiocaesium in soil, vegetation, wildlife and fungi in Great Britain

    Chaplow JS, Beresford NA, and Barnett CL

    2015

  • Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi in the Heshang Cave, central China

    Man, Baiying; Wang, Hongmei; Xiang, Xing, .Wang, RC (Wang, Ruicheng), Yun, Y (Yun, Yuan), Gong, LF (Gong, Linfeng).

    2015

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