GROWTH OF COLONIES AND HYPHAL ULTRASTRUCTURE OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI GROWN ON DIBUTYL PHTHALATE AND DI(2-ETHYLHEXYL)PHTHALATE
J.L. Suárez-Segundo, D. Vazquez-Lopez, J.L. Torres-Garcia, M. Ahuactzin-Pérez, N. Montiel-Martínez, S. Tlecuitl-Beristain and C. Sánchez
This is the first study that shows the growth of filamentous fungi in the different zones of the vegetative phase of the colony grown on phthalates.
This is the first report that shows that the hypha is not affected by phthalates.
There are few studies about the ability to degrade phthalates by some of the fungi studied in this research.
These fungi confirmed that cutinase enzyme is very important for the degradation of phthalates.
It is shown that these fungi are able to use dibutyl phthalate and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate as sole carbon and energy sources.
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