Abstract
Turquoise blue dye is frequently used for industrial dyeing applications. But the release of untreated colored wastewater became an environmental and public health hazard. Microbial remediation of Azodye is environmentally safe and an alternative to a physicochemical approach. The aim of this research is to isolate and characterize turquoise blue dye degrading microbes from polluted environment. Microbial isolation and purification from soil and effluent sample was done on PDA and NA. Turquoise blue dye degrading test was investigated under optimized conditions using -the definitive screening design method. UV-Vis spectrophotometer used to measure the degradation percentage at 620 nm and 25 °C. The results revealed that 24 fungi and 6 bacterial species were identified from the contaminated site using Biolog Microstation and MALDI-TOF. Among all identified microbial species Pencilium citrinum Thom BCA & Penicillium heriquei show the highest percentage decolorization of turquoise blue dye up to 300 ppm with 90 % removal at pH4 and 87 % at pH 7 up to 400 ppm respectively. The azodye degradation ability of these fungi species used in the development of mycoremediation technologies provide an alternative option for Azodye removal after HPLC analysis, molecular characterization, and toxic analysis.