Pramod C. Mane, Deepali D. Kadam, Ravindra D. Chaudhari, Sandesh E. Papade, Kailas K. Waghule, Premanand A. Gaikwad, Rohit S. Shinde and Ganesh A. Kshirsagar
In the present investigation, in situ was conducted to determine the comparative phytotoxic effects of untreated and bioremediated sugar industry effluent with immobilized Spirogyra sp. The present research work includes the effects of different concentrations viz., 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of sugar industry wastewater and bioremediated wastewater on percentage of seed germination, shoot length, root length, and some biochemical parameters viz., chlorophyll, protein, total carbohydrates, starch and free amino acids of Triticum astevium (Wheat).The results of this research work revealed that, using undiluted effluent no seed germination was observed even after 7 days while in 75% diluted effluent 90% seeds were germinated after 7 days. By using bioremediated waste water, 100% seed germination was observed only after 3 days. The shoot length, root length and biochemical parameters showed inhibitory effects with increasing concentration of effluent. In case of bioremediated wastewater, strikingly most of the parameters showed stimulatory effects as compared to control.
