mong all industrial sectors in terms of both volume and composition
of the effluents [1,2]. The color in these wastewaters is due to
synthetic dyes left unused due to industrial inefficiencies. Presently
over 10,000 different dyes and pigments are used in dyeing and
printing industries all over the world. The total world colorant
production is estimated to be 800,000 tons per year and at least
10–15% of the used dyestuff enters the environment throughwastes
[3–5]. Many of them are believed to be toxic and carcinogenic
[6].
The efficient and economical removal of these dyes from textile
industry effluents is an environmental challenge [7] because of the
difficulty of their removal from effluents. Literature suggests that
there is a great potential for developing microbiological decolorization
systems with total color removal, in some cases within few
hours [8,9]. The class of microorganisms most efficient in breaking
down synthetic dyes is the white rot basidiomycetes [2]. The dye
degradation property of white rot fungi (WRF) is based on their
capacity to produce one or more extracellular lignin-modifying