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Trial site, Finland

Finland, PAH-contaminated soil (field-scale fungal treatment)

Finnish soil heavily contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: 1,400 mg/kg (sum of 16 PAHs) in the material treated in the field. The sources consulted do not give the place.

Mycoremediation

Contaminants

Organic compounds

Plants and fungi at this site

MycoremediationField pilot

Phanerochaete velutina

Winquist, Björklöf, Steffen, Jørgensen, Tuomela and colleagues inoculated the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete velutina first in laboratory microcosms and then in a field test on 2 tonnes of soil, each with an uninoculated control.

Outcome In the laboratory the fungus made the difference: in three months 96% of 4-ring PAHs and 39% of 5–6-ring ones, against 55% and 7% without inoculum. In the field it did not: 94% of the 16 PAHs were degraded in three months in inoculated and uninoculated soil alike. The advantage seen in the laboratory was not repeated at the larger scale.

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

Fungi

The rest are on the contaminant pages.

Sources

  1. Winquist et al., Bioremediation of PAH-contaminated soil with fungi – from laboratory to field scale, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2014

Draft compiled from public sources, not yet reviewed.