ABSTRACT
Global environmental issues have increased after rapid urban growth, increased industrialization, and extensive agricultural practices. The urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural activities demanded massive transportation and energy consumption, exploration of natural resources, heavy industrialization, and development of vast lands for agricultural and recreational purposes. Organic and inorganic pollutants together can harm human health, damage plant growth, cause soil and water pollution, and have severe environmental impacts. Fungi are dominant living biomass in soil with limited exploitation for the bioremediation of heavy metals and pesticides in the polluted environmental conditions. The diverse metabolic competence of fungi provides an option for their vast application in the bioremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants. The organic pollutants are evolved from organic compounds, that is, sewage, industrial effluents, urban runoff, food processing, and agriculture wastewater. Among the bioremediation technologies, mycoremediation is considered as a promising method to clean HMs and pesticide residues in contaminated soils.
