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Microorganism Involved in the Degradation of Pesticides: A Review | Original Article

Sunil Kumar Suman*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

Unnecessary utilization of pesticides has been known to be unsafe to the earth, influence soil fertility also may bestow toxicity quality in living creatures. By and by there have been physical, synthetic, organic and enzymatic methodologies embroiled to diminish pesticides. In spite of the fact that intended to kill, physical and compound strategies are wasteful. Inquisitively, microbial pesticide remediation has been practical and thermodynamically more moderate, which may utilize any physical mater ruined with pesticide. Under good conditions organisms have been accounted for to utilize pesticides as wellspring of carbon, sulfur and electron benefactor. Microorganisms microbes, actinomycetes and growths have been found to encourage evacuate or detoxify chlorinated pesticides polychlorinated diphenyl, polycyclic fragrant hydrocarbons, organophosphorus. Major bacterial genera incorporates Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, Moraxalla, Acinetobacter, Arthrobacter, Paracoccus, Aerobacter, Alkaligens, Burkholderia and Sphingomonas. Organisms with pesticide degradation potential includes Fusarium, Aspergilus niger, Penicillium, Lentinulaedodes, Lecanicillium, Oxysporum. Among the Actinomycetes the Streptomycetes have been found to effectively detoxify pesticides.