Table 5.

Tolerance and uptake of heavy metals by fungi from liquid medium containing 12.5 ppm each of Pb, Cd, Cr and Ni

Fungi	Dry weight (g)	Pb uptake (mg/g)	Cd uptake (mg/g)	Cr uptake (mg/g)	Ni uptake (mg/g)
Pb2 (Aspergillus niger)	0.51	0.46	0.08	0.76	0.64
Ni35 (A. flavus)	0.40	0.70	0.10	0.44	0.43
Phanerochaete chrysosporium	0.22	0.62	0.15	0.59	0.39
Trichoderma viride	0.01	0.89	0.16	0.55	0.38
Aspergillus flavus	0.39	0.51	0.11	0.66	0.23
Aspergillus awamori	0.34	0.21	0.10	0.53	0.23
Pb7 (A. flavus)	0.42	0.64	0.09	0.56	0.58
Pb8 (A. flavus)	0.41	0.56	0.09	0.54	0.66
Ni27 (A. niger)	0.45	0.67	0.08	0.49	0.33
Ni30 (A. niger)	0.48	0.61	0.08	0.49	0.31
Ni33 (A. niger)	0.48	0.58	0.09	0.62	0.45
Ni36 (A. flavus)	0.34	0.43	0.14	0.56	0.39
CD at 5%	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03