Abstract
The extensive application of chlorinated and organophosphate-derived pesticides in agricultural practices leads to increase in productivity of food crops by controlling insects and microbial diseases associated with standing crop. Nevertheless, the higher accumulative, persistency, and biomagnification tendency of these chemically derived pesticides have several adverse effects on soil as well as human health. Therefore bioremediation of these chemicals by microbial means is emerging as an environment friendly technology of soil reclamation. This review deals with several microbial-assisted methods applied for the removal or degradation of persistent pesticides in natural environment. The diverse metabolic mechanism followed by microbes for degradation of pesticides in soil environment is also discussed in details. This review also explored the application of advanced, molecular, and biotechnological approaches for the removal of pesticides in more effective manners. This review will lead to help the future researches associated with bioremediation of pesticides contaminated soil along with advantages and disadvantage of these technologies.
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