title: ICP-MS determination of heavy metals in submerged cultures of wood-rotting fungi.
abstract: Accumulation of five heavy metal ions by five species of wood-rotting basidiomycetes during a 9-day cultivation was studied. Contents of Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn were measured using ICP-MS; the amount of mercury was determined directly in solid samples using the Advanced Mercury Analyser. A standard operation procedure for the sample preparation and determination of metal content was developed and validated. Presence of Cd, Cu, Hg, and Pb decreased the accumulation of zinc by the fungi. The basidiomycete Pycnoporus cinnabarinus exhibited the highest metal binding capacity of all fungi tested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Curdová
authors.forename: Lenka
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vavrusková
authors.forename: Miloslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suchánek
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baldrian
authors.forename: Jiří
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gabriel