EFFICACY OF A PHYTO-PURIFICATION LAGOON USING FUNGAL MYCO-FLORA IN NORTH EAST ALGERIABENYOUCEF ASSYA, KRIBAA MOHAMED, ABABSA NAWAL, KHAMMAR HICHEM AND HADJAB RAMZIAbstract The wastewater treatment plant of the Beni Fouda region Willaya of Setif Algeria is a natural lagoon wastewater treatment plant based on the phyto-purification technique which is less expensive, simpler to operate and environmentally friendly, resulting from a set of physicochemical and biological reactions carried out by plants and micro-organisms on the pollutants present in these waters. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the diversity of fungal myco-flora of the roots of Phragmites australis in the cityâs wastewater treatment plant. The results of the isolation of fungal flora from the roots of the reed purifying plant âPhragmites australisâ reveal a high diversity of fungal myco-flora and 11 genus are counted. The most dominant genus during the study period was Trichoderma sp with a percentage of 23%, followed by the genus Fusarium sp with a percentage of 18%. The diversity indices show that the distribution of the mycoflora genus varies according to the sampling season and the level of the stratum where the waters rich in nutrients and mineral salts are found. |