Effect of ultraviolet irradiation on growth of isolated native fungi and their ability for degradation of PAHs

Sustainable development requires the development and promotion of environmental management and a constant search for green technologies to treat a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats contaminated by increasing anthropogenic activities. The aim of this work was to investigate the ability offour previously isolated fungi in degradation of polycyclic (PAHs) and the effect of UV irritation on fungi cell growth and degradation of PAHs. The ability of allfungi in degradation of Anthracene were studied from liquid medium in shaking flasks. Cell growth rate of different type were 0.03, 0.021, 0.02 and 0.01gr cell perday respectively for BBRC 9057, BBRC 20020, BBRC 9058 and BBRC 9002.these Types degraded respectively 91, 60, 76 and 32 % of primaryanthracene in the mediume. BBRC 9057 was exposed to UV irritation for several time durations. The ability of degradation of Aanthracene and cell growth of BBRC 9057 didn’t increase in low concentration of Antracen, but cell groth and it’s degradation increased 6.51 and 1.82 times rather than parental strain when exposed to UV for 10 minutes.