Environmental cadmium pollution is of increasing concern. Microorganisms are deemed to have great potential in treating cadmium pollution. Biosorption has emerged as one of the most promising process because of its high efficiency and favorable economics. A Yeast strain, isolated and designated as Y11 in our lab, could survive 2000mg/L of cadmium. Its characteristics and mechanism of cadmium removal were studied in this paper.
According to its morphological characteristics and the abi...