Table 1.

Overview of the bioremediation potential of fungi

SN	Compound	Fungi	References
1	POPs
	Polychlorinated biphenyls	Doratomyces nanus, D. purpureofuscus, D. verrucisporus, Myceliophthora thermophila, Phoma eupyrena, and Thermoascus crustaceus	Mouhamadou et al. [160]
		Aspergillus niger	Marco-Urrea et al. [161]
	Polychlorinated dibenzofurans	White rot fungi	Wu et al. [162]
		Phanerochaete sordida	Turlo [163]
	Phenylurea herbicide diuron	Mortierella	Ellegaard-Jensen et al. [164]
2	Textile dye decolourization	Aspergillus niger, A. foetidus, T. viride, A. sojae, Geotrichum candidium, Penicillium sp., Pycnoporus cinnabarinus Trichoderma sp.	Jebapriya and Gnanadoss [14]
		White rot fungi Bjerkandera adusta, Ceriporia metamorphosa, Ganoderma sp.	Ma et al. [165]
3	Petroleum products
	Crude oil	A. niger, Rhizopus sp., Candida sp., Penicillium sp., Mucor sp.	Damisa et al. [166]
	Gasoline	Exophiala xenobiotica	Isola et al. [167]
4	Bleached kraft pulp mill effluent	Rhizopus oryzae or Pleurotus sajor caju	Duarte et al. [63]
5	Effluent from leather tanning	Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus sp. and A. niger Aspergillus jegita	Bennet et al. [62] Reya et al. [64]
6	PAH
	Diphenyl ether	White rot fungi Pleurotus ostreatus Trametes versicolor	Wu et al. [162] Rosales et al. [29]
	Anthracene	Armillaria sp.	Hadibarata et al. [155]
	Naphthalene	White rot fungi Pleurotus eryngii	Hadibarata et al. [168]
7	PPCP
	Caffiene	Chrysosporium keratinophilum, Gliocladium roseum, Fusarium solani, A. restrictus, Penicillium and Stemphylium	Nayak et al. [65]
	Citalopram, fluoxetine, sulfamethoxazole	Bjerkandera sp. R1, Bjerkandera adusta and Phanerochaete chrysosporium	Rodarte-Morales et al. [169]
8	Fungicide
	Metalaxyl and Folpet	Gongronella sp. and R. stolonifer	Martins et al. [170]
9	Pesticide
	Chlorinated hydrocarbons: Heptaclor	P. ostreatus	Purnomo et al. [28]
	Chloropyriphos	Aspergillus terreus	Silambarasan and Abraham [67]
10	Heavy Metals	Aspergillus, Curvularia, Acrimonium, Pythyme Aspergillus flavus	Akhtar et al. [59] Kurniati et al. [82]