Table 2.

Potential of microbial strains for detoxification of industrial effluents.

Microbial strain	Experimental conditions	Response/Results	References
Brevibacillus laterosporus MTCC 2298	Mixture containing seven commercial textile dyes with different structures and color properties	It showed 87% decolorization in terms of ADMI (American Dye Manufacturing Institute) removal within 24 h	Kurade et al., 2011
Aspergillus niger	Used pulp and paper industry wastewater	Decolorization of pulp and paper industry wastewater	Kamali and Khodaparast, 2015
Aspergillus foetidus	Used different textile effluents	Maximum decolorization of several azo dyes	Sumathi and Phatak, 1999
Pseudomona putida	Degradation of textile effluents observed at 25°C	Industrial textile wastewater, 95% color, 92% COD	Babu et al., 2011
Pseudomonas sp. SUK1	Sulfonated azo dye (Reactive Red 2) in a wide range (up to 5 g L−1), at temperature 30°C, and pH range 6.2–7.5 in static condition	Showed decolorization of the media containing a mixture of dyes	Kalyani et al., 2008
Bacillus licheniformis LS04	Reactive black 5, reactive blue 19 and indigo carmine was used in the experiment	More than 80% of color removal in 1 h at pH 6.6 or 9.0	Lu et al., 2012
Tinctoporia borbonica	Pulp and paper industry wastewater	Decolorization of pulp and paper industry waste	Senthilkumar et al., 2014
Bacillus sp. ADR	Used different azodyes	Decolorized different azo dyes with efficiencies of 68–90%	Telke et al., 2011
Penicillium oxalicum SAR-3	18S and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA gene sequence analysis and checked the degradation rate	Dye decolorization was detected	Saroj et al., 2014
Bacillus and Pseudomonas	Metals contaminated sites	Reducing the toxicity and concentrations of pollutants	Fosso-Kankeu et al., 2011
Lenzites elegans WDP2	Used different azodyes	Decolorized brilliant green, malachite green and congo red by 93, 21, and 99%, respectively	Pandey et al., 2018