Table 2.

Biodegradation of dyes by algal, fungal and yeast biomass

Algal biomass
Name of dye	Algae	Decolorization (%)	Experimental conditions	References
Textile dyes (Indigo)	Phormidium autumnale UTEX1580	98	14 days incubation time	Dellamatrice et al. (2017)
Methylene Blue	C. pyrenoidosa	98.20	1 day incubation time	Lebron et al. (2018)
Methyl orange, Methyl red, Pb2 + ions	Sargassum fluitans	25 68 95	30 min incubation time 30 min incubation time 80 min incubation time	López-Miranda et al. (2020)
Fungal biomass
Acid red 88	Achaetomium strumarium	99	10 mg/L of adye, pH 4, temperature 40 °C, 96 h	Bankole et al. (2018)
Congo Red	Aspergillus niger	97	pH 5, 200 mg/L of dye, 6 days incubation, temperature 28 °C, 120 to 150 rpm	Asses et al. (2018)
Acid Blue 161 Procion Red MX-5B	Aspergillus terreus	100	336 h of treatment, temperature 30 °C	Almeida and Corso (2019)
Direct Blue-1	Aspergillus terreus GS28	98.4	168 h 100 mg/l L, temperature 30 °C	Singh and Dwivedi (2020)
Yeast biomass
Red B (ARB) A detoxification	Pichia occidentalis	98	2.0 g/L glucose, 0.6 g/L ammonium sulfate, 0.08 g/L yeast extract, 30 g/L NaCl, 30 °C, pH 5.0, 16 h	Song et al. (2017)
Congo red dye	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	90.7	40 ppm (0.004 g/100 mL), pH 4, 18 h	Mathivanan et al. (2018)
Acid Scarlet GR	Galactomyces geotrichum GG	92	0.1 g/L of yeast extract, 2.0 g/L of glucose, 0.4 g/L of ammonium sulfate, ≤ 40 g/L of NaCl, pH 7.0–8.0. 100 mg/L of dye, 10 h	Guo et al. (2019)