Patent ID: 7118906

Claim:
A process for removal of three-ringed and/or four-ringed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from sites contaminated therewith using white-rot lignin modifying fungus strain Flavodon flavus NRRL 30302, said process comprising: (a) growing the white rot strain Flavodon flavus NRRL 30302 in a nutrient medium containing assimilable carbon and nitrogen source for at least 7 days; (b) contacting, for at least 3 days, the sites contaminated by the three-ringed and/or four-ringed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with a fungal bio-mass of the Flavodon flavus grown in step (a) under oxygenated conditions with salinity ranging between 0 to 15 parts per thousand, and (c) removing said fungal bio-mass to get the contaminated sites devoid of three-ringed and/or four-ringed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.