Abstract

Pollution caused due to textile effluents affect the quality of the water there by rendering it unavailable for use. Unlike chemical methods, microbial degradation of textile effluents improve their quality without negatively affecting the environment. Isolation and identification of bacterial species with dye–degrading potential from textile effluent will be of great importance as these isolates will be efficient degraders of dye effluents. Against this background, this work was carried out with an objective to identify the bacterial and fungal species with dye degrading ability from the textile effluents collected from Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, South India. Bacterial and fungal species were isolated following standard methods and identified by PCR amplification of 16srDNA and ITS genes respectively followed by nucleotide sequence analysis. Bacteria isolated from the textile effluents include Halomonas sp (KB1), Bacillus sp.(KB2), Bacillus subtilus(KB3), Bacillus cereus (KB4), and Staphylococcus sp (KB5).The predominant fungal species isolated was Sagenomella sp (KF1).