Isolation of Pesticide Degrading Microorganisms from soil

Abstract

In developing nations like India pesticides play an important role in agricultural. Their importance in crop yield improvement is under stood and well accepted. But their highly toxic nature posses a fatal environmental threat. Present study is directed towards development of biodegradation method to reduce the environmental burden of the pesticide. During this study six bacterial and four fungal isolates have shown significant ability to carry out the degradation of pesticides, these cultures were identified as Acinetobacter radioresistens, Pseudomonas frederiksbergensis, Bacillus pumilus, Serratia l iquefaciens, Serratia marcescens, Burkholderia gladioli among bacteria and Aspergillus niger, Ganoderma austral, Trichosporon , Verticillium dahaliae among fungus.