Insights into the microbial degradation and catalytic mechanisms of chlorpyrifos

Y Huang, W Zhang, S Pang, J Chen, P Bhatt… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chlorpyrifos is extensively used worldwide as an insecticide to control various insect pests.
Long-term and irregular applications of chlorpyrifos have resulted in large-scale soil …

Biodiversity of pesticides degrading microbial communities and their environmental impact

M Kumar, AN Yadav, R Saxena, D Paul… - Biocatalysis and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A number of hazardous pesticides (pure substances or mixtures of chemicals) are being
used by the farmers in agricultural fields to control undesired microbes during production …

Chlorpyrifos: pollution and remediation

EM John, JM Shaike - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2015 - Springer
The widespread use of pesticides in modern agriculture is of increasing concern due to
environmental contamination and subsequent biodiversity loss. Chlorpyrifos is a toxic …

Microbial remediation: a promising tool for reclamation of contaminated sites with special emphasis on heavy metal and pesticide pollution: a review

N Tarfeen, KU Nisa, B Hamid, Z Bashir, AM Yatoo… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heavy metal and pesticide pollution have become an inevitable part of the modern
industrialized environment that find their way into all ecosystems. Because of their persistent …

Applications of microalgal and cyanobacterial biomass on a way to safe, cleaner and a sustainable environment

G Deviram, T Mathimani, S Anto, TS Ahamed… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Algae (especially microalgae and cyanobacteria) are potentially diverse, ubiquitous, and
dominant group of photosynthetic organisms in nature. The dominance and diversity of …

Pesticide relevance and their microbial degradation: a-state-of-art

JP Verma, DK Jaiswal, R Sagar - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2014 - Springer
The extensive use of pesticide causes imbalance in properties of soil, water and air
environments due to having problem of natural degradation. Such chemicals create diverse …

Cyanobacteria: photoautotrophic microbial factories for the sustainable synthesis of industrial products

NS Lau, M Matsui, AAA Abdullah - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are widely distributed Gram‐negative bacteria with a long evolutionary
history and the only prokaryotes that perform plant‐like oxygenic photosynthesis …

Pesticide residues degradation strategies in soil and water: a review

R Kaur, D Singh, A Kumari, G Sharma, S Rajput… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The benefits of using pesticides globally to control pests come at the cost of their ubiquitous
occurrence in the ecosystem. The uncontrolled use of pesticides in agricultural practices …

Microbial degradation of chlorpyrifos in liquid media and soil

Z Chishti, S Hussain, KR Arshad, A Khalid… - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Chlorpyrifos is a broad-spectrum insecticide which is used extensively in agriculture
worldwide. Its massive application has led to the contamination of water and soil, and …

Biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos and Its Hydrolysis Product 3,5,6-Trichloro-2-Pyridinol by a New Fungal Strain Cladosporium cladosporioides Hu-01

S Chen, C Liu, C Peng, H Liu, M Hu, G Zhong - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Intensive use of chlorpyrifos has resulted in its ubiquitous presence as a contaminant in
surface streams and soils. It is thus critically essential to develop bioremediation methods to …