Abstract
Isolation and characterization of a biodegrading 3-chloropropionic acid Burkholderia cepacia WH1 isolated from abandoned agricultural land
Highlights
Halogenated aliphatic compounds are xenobiotic substances produced in large quantities for use in the agricultural and industrial processes (Yan et al, 2010; Abdul Hamid et al, 2011)
Sampling of the soil obtained from the herbicide-contaminated agricultural land in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) successfully isolated an indigenous bacterial strain that was designated as strain WH1
The basic cellular morphology of the WH1 bacteria showed that the bacteria were generally of circular shape, white and formed creamy colored colonies on the 10 mM 3-chloropropionic acid (3CP) minimal agar plates
Summary
Halogenated aliphatic compounds are xenobiotic substances produced in large quantities for use in the agricultural and industrial processes (Yan et al, 2010; Abdul Hamid et al, 2011). These substances symbolize an important class of environmental pollutants due to their widespread use as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and solvents (Fetzner and Lingens, 1994; Bhatt et al, 2007). Bioremediation may be an economical, safe and environmentally friendly (Janssen et al 2005, Abdul Hamid et al, 2011) means to remove these xenobiotic substances in comparison to the chemical methods viz. adsorption, ion exchange, liquid-liquid extraction, and chemical oxidation (Arora and Bae, 2014).
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