The potential of white-rot fungi for algal control: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Challenges

Haiyang Yu; Pengyu Lei; Jiahui Ma; Jiahui Jin; Yilei Ma; Yimeng Fang; Guoming Zeng; Kun Zhang; Libo Jin; Da Sun

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2023.116738

The potential of white-rot fungi for algal control: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Challenges

Environ Res. 2023 Nov 1;236(Pt 1):116738. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116738. Epub 2023 Jul 24.

Authors

Haiyang Yu¹, Pengyu Lei¹, Jiahui Ma¹, Jiahui Jin¹, Yilei Ma¹, Yimeng Fang¹, Guoming Zeng², Kun Zhang³, Libo Jin⁴, Da Sun⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Life Science & Biomedical Collaborative Innovation Center of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China.
² Chongqing Engineering Laboratory of Nano/Micro Biological Medicine Detection Technology, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, 401331, China. Electronic address: 2017015@cqust.edu.cn.
³ Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China.
⁴ National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Ecological Treatment Technology of Urban Water Pollution, College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China.
⁵ Institute of Life Science & Biomedical Collaborative Innovation Center of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Water Environment and Marine Biological Resources Protection, College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China. Electronic address: sunday@wzu.edu.cn.

PMID: 37495066
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116738

Abstract

As human society and industrialization have progressed, harmful algal blooms have contributed to global ecological pollution which makes the development of a novel and effective algal control strategy imminent. This is because existing physical and chemical methods for dealing with the problem have issues like cost and secondary pollution. Benefiting from their environmentally friendly and biocompatible properties, white-rot fungi (WRF) have been studied to control algal growth. WRF control algae by using algae for carbon or nitrogen, antagonism, and enhancing allelopathies. It can be better applied to practice by immobilization. This paper reviews the mechanism for WRF control of algae growth and its practical application. It demonstrates the limitations of WRF controlling algae growth and aids the further study of biological methods to regulate eutrophic water in algae growth research. In addition, it provides theoretical support for the fungi controlling algae growth.

Keywords: Allelopathy; Bioreactors; Eutrophication; Harmful algal blooms; Microbial immobilization; White-rot fungi.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Basidiomycota*
Eutrophication*
Fungi
Harmful Algal Bloom
Humans