“…Little is known about the degradation of dyes and color removal by yeasts (Singh, 2006); nonetheless, most studies show positive results. Several genera of yeast have been studied such as Kluyveromyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Issatchenkia, Debaryomyces, Pseudozyma, and Saccharomyces (Aksu and Dönmez, 2003;Ramalho et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2003Yang et al, , 2005Yu and Wen, 2005;Kumari and Abraham, 2007). Candida species have been used in some works and good results were presented for removal of reactive dyes in concentrations ranging from 10 -700 mg l -1 , nevertheless, these studies showed adsorption, besides degradation (Gönen and Aksu, 2009;Ertugrul et al, 2009) and absorption (Dönmez, 2002;Aksu and Dönmez, 2003).…”