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Fungal involvement in bioweathering and biotransformation of rocks and minerals

Burford, E. P., Fomina, M., Gadd, G. M.·2003·Mineralogical Magazine

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Abstract In the Earth’s lithosphere, fungi are of fundamental importance as decomposer organisms, animal and plant pathogens and symbionts (e.g. lichens and mycorrhizas), being ubiquitous in sub-aerial and subsoil environments. The ability of fungi to interact with minerals, metals, metalloids and organic compounds through biomechanical and biochemical processes, makes them ideally suited as biological weathering agents of rock and building stone. They also play a fundamental role in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, (e.g. C, N, P and S) and metals (e.g. Na, Mg, Ca, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Co and Ni) essential for the growth of living organisms in the biosphere. In addition they play an integral role in the mobilization and immobilization of non-essential metals (e.g. Cs, Al, Cd, Hg and Pb). Most studies on mineral-microbe interactions and microbial involvement in geological processes have concentrated on bacteria and archaea (Prokaryota): fungi (Eukaryota) have, to a certain extent, been neglected. This article addresses the role of fungi in geomicrobiological processes, emphasizing their deteriorative potential on rock, building stone and mineral surfaces and involvement in the formation of secondary mycogenic minerals. Such roles of fungi are also of importance for the global carbon reservoir and have potential biotechnological applications, e.g. in the bioremediation of xenobiotic-, metal- and/or radionuclide-contaminated soils and wastes, and metal/radionuclide recovery.

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Authors: Burford, E. P., Fomina, M., & Gadd, G. M.
Affiliations: University of Dundee (GB)
ORCID: Fomina, M.
Gadd, G. M.
Venue: Mineralogical Magazine
Publisher: Mineralogical Society
Published: 2003-12
Volume: 67
Issue: 6
Pages: 1127-1155
ISSN: 0026-461X (ISSN-L)
1471-8022
DOI: 10.1180/0026461036760154
OpenAlex: W2106222412
Cited by: 392
References: 236
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 17
FWCI: 19.39
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5330 d)
Locations: Mineralogical Magazine (publishedVersion)
Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Building materials and conservation
Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Metals and Alloys › Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords: fungi, bioweathering, biotransformation, rock weathering, building stone deterioration, mineral-microbe interactions, metal mobilization, metal immobilization, biogeochemical cycles, bioremediation, radionuclide recovery, metal recovery, geomicrobiology

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