Trial site, Pisa, Toscana, Italy
Canale dei Navicelli, sedimenti di dragaggio
A navigable canal linking Pisa to the port of Livorno. The sediments are contaminated mainly with shipyard fuels and diesel: about 54,000 mg/kg of total hydrocarbons in the material studied.
Contaminants
Organic compounds
Plants and fungi at this site
MycoremediationLaboratory, with soil from the site
Lambertella sp. MUT 5852, Pleurotus ostreatus
The University of Pisa (Becarelli, Siracusa, Di Gregorio and colleagues) isolated from the sediments four ascomycetes able to degrade diesel. The Lambertella strain was added to the sediments co-composted with lignocellulosic residues; a later study compared it with co-composting on spent Pleurotus ostreatus substrate.
Outcome With Lambertella 47.6% of total hydrocarbons were degraded in two months. In the later comparison adding the strain proved necessary to bring hydrocarbons down: spent Pleurotus substrate alone was not enough.
- Becarelli et al., Hydrocarbonoclastic Ascomycetes to enhance co-composting of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) contaminated dredged sediments and lignocellulosic matrices, New Biotechnology, 2019
- Becarelli et al., Ascomycetes versus spent mushroom substrate in mycoremediation of dredged sediments contaminated by total petroleum hydrocarbons, Water, mdpi.com, 2021
From the literature
Species that acted on one of this site's contaminants in at least one study. The list is automatic and takes no account of this site's soil, concentrations or climate.
Plants
- Festuca arundinaceaTall fescuePetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: field
- Lolium perennePerennial ryegrassPetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: field
- Medicago sativaAlfalfa, lucernePetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: field
- Paulownia tomentosaPrincess tree, empress treePetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: field
Fungi
- Pleurotus pulmonariusPhoenix oyster, Indian oysterPetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: laboratory
- Scedosporium apiospermumPetroleum hydrocarbonsEvidence: laboratory
Nearby
SIN, Livorno, Collesalvetti, Toscana
Livorno
11 km
- Petroleum hydrocarbons
- BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes)
- MTBE
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Phytoremediation
SIN, Massa, Carrara, Toscana
Massa and Carrara
46 km
- Pesticides (mixed)
- Chlorinated solvents (TCE, PCE, chloroform)
- Ammonia
- Petroleum hydrocarbons
Former SIN, La Spezia e Lerici, Liguria
Pitelli (La Spezia)
60 km
SIN, Piombino (Livorno), Toscana
Piombino
83 km
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Petroleum hydrocarbons
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Chlorinated solvents (TCE, PCE, chloroform)
Sources
- Becarelli et al., Hydrocarbonoclastic Ascomycetes to enhance co-composting of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) contaminated dredged sediments and lignocellulosic matrices, New Biotechnology, 2019
- Becarelli et al., Ascomycetes versus spent mushroom substrate in mycoremediation of dredged sediments contaminated by total petroleum hydrocarbons, Water, mdpi.com, 2021
Draft compiled from public sources, not yet reviewed.