Antibacterial Effect of Untreated and Treated (Decolorized) Dyes by Agricultural Wastes
- 1 Inonu University, Turkey
Abstract
Toxicity (antibacterial effect) of untreated and treated (decolorized) dyes on a soil bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was determined. Low cost and easily available two agricultural residues (cotton stalk and apricot seed) as biosorbents were used to remove Astrazone Black and Astrazone Yellow from aqueous solution. The removal of these dyes with agricultural wastes reduced the toxic effect on P. aeruginosa. This reduction in toxic effect is important both in respect of environmental biotechnology and waste detoxification. This study showed that these agricultural byproducts can be used for decolorization and detoxification of dyes.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.50.53
Copyright: © 2005 Sibel Kahraman and Pelin Yalcin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Agricultural waster
- antibacterial effect
- astrazone dyes
- decolorziation
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa