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In situ bioremediation of organochlorine-pesticide-contaminated microcosm soil and evaluation by gene probe

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Title In situ bioremediation of
organochlorine-pesticide-contaminated
microcosm soil and evaluation by gene probe
 
Creator Qureshi, Asifa
M, Mohan
Kanade, Gajanan
Kapley, A
Purohit, H J
 
Subject Environmental Biotechnology
Microbiology
 
Description BACKGROUND:Pesticide-formulating industries are contaminatingthe environment through various activities. Bioremediation is the bestmethod for decontamination, as chemical and physicalmethods are not only costly but also not very effective in open field systems. In the present study, in situ bioremediation of organochlorine-contaminated soil was demonstrated by combined biostimulation and bioaugmentation strategies, followed by evaluation using amolecular method.RESULTS: Three parameters were monitored: microbial biomass (colony-forming units (CFU) gāˆ’1 soil), residual pesticides after treatment and catabolic genes from microcosm soil. Both the biostimulation and the bioaugmentation treatments showed an initial lag phase of 80 days towards colony-forming units. Gas chromatography of soil samples showed that concentrations of residual pesticides in the soil declined by up to 85ā€“90% after 80 days, indicating their utilisation with time.
On dot-blot hybridisation of the total DNA from the same soil samples, it was observed that catabolic genes tfdC (catechol1,2-dioxygenase) and cm genes (chlorophenol monoxygenase) were predominant, whereas other catabolic genes such as catechol 2,3-dioxygenase (xylE) were negligible.
CONCLUSION: The strategy of in situ bioremediation and its evaluation by gene probe and also by conventional methods was demonstrated for organochlorine-pesticide-contaminated soil in open microcosms. It showed that bioaugmentation alongwith biostimulation was effective, although initial acclimatisation for a period of almost 2ā€“3 months was required in the open field systems.
 
Publisher wiley
 
Date 2009-04-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/426/4/Asifa_PMSci_2009_paper.pdf
Qureshi, Asifa and M, Mohan and Kanade, Gajanan and Kapley, A and Purohit, H J (2009) In situ bioremediation of organochlorine-pesticide-contaminated microcosm soil and evaluation by gene probe. Pest Management Science, 65 (7). pp. 798-804. ISSN 1526-498X
 
Relation http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.1757/pdf
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