Abstract :
Dye discharge from textile industries causes a serious threat to the water resources. Many complicated molecular structure of dyes make the wastewater from textile industries difficult to be treated by conventional methods. Therefore, innovative treatment technologies need to be investigated. The present study focuses on to the characterization of the biological potential
of moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from the marine site, with mixed consortium of bacteria that were previously studied for dye degradation. The isolate was tested for their different dyes degradation with mixed consortium of bacteria and their heavy metal tolerance capacity. The isolates found to improve degradation of the azo dyes used in the studies and were also help
tolerant to heavy metals such as zinc, copper, nickel.
Keyword :
halophilic, dye degradation, heavy metal tolerance