Soil Microorganisms and Their Potential in Pesticide Biodegradation; A Review Article | ||||
Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences | ||||
Article 1, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 2018, Page 39-61 PDF (970.99 K) | ||||
Document Type: Review Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jsas.2018.3465.1061 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Mohammed Mustapha 1; Normala Binti Halimoon2; Wan lufi Wan Johari3; Mohammed Yunus Abd Shakur4 | ||||
143400, serdang jaya selangor | ||||
2Environmental science department, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University Putra Malaysia. | ||||
3Environmental Science Department, Faculty of Enviromental Studies, University Putra Malaysia. | ||||
4Environmental Biotechnology Department, FACULTY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCES Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Pesticides play an important role in preventing insect pests and weeds in crops. However, excessive use of pesticides has been known to be unsafe, due to their toxicity to non-target organisms and the ecosystem. Biodegradation is an innovative approach for decontaminating pesticide pollution. However, compared with the list of extensively used pesticides there are few well-characterized strains of microbes that transform pesticides into less-toxic or more labile products at environmentally useful rates. Fortunately, the technology required to isolate and characterize such microbial strains has improved immensely in the recent years. Furthermore, recent experimental developments have made practical the modification of potentially beneficial biodegradation genes so that they may be optimally expressed in a wide range of microbial species. This reviews article explore the recent studies that have focused on biodegradation of pesticide residues, the mechanism of microbial degradation of pesticides, the factors that affect the degradation of pesticides and the new application of microbial degradation of pesticides. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
biodegradation; Pesticides; Soil; fungi; Bacteria; Immobilization; Molecular | ||||
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