“…Specifically, the use of plant peroxidases in removal of phenolic pollutants from aqueous solution is well documented [19,20]. It has been demonstrated that horseradish peroxidase (HRP) can catalyze free-radical formation, followed by spontaneous polymerization of a variety of aromatic compounds, including phenol [21][22][23][24], chlorophenols [13,25] and other substituted phenols [26], in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ). Furthermore, HRP is also known to have the ability to degrade aromatic azo compounds in the presence of H 2 O 2 and to precipitate industrially important azo dyes [15,16,27,28].…”