Microbe induced degradation of pesticides in agricultural soils

Abstract

The extensive use of pesticides has played hazard with living beings and the environment and also these chemicals persist and leach in environment for a long time because of more water solubility, tendency to adsorb to the soil (soil adsorption) and more half-life that is tendency to persistence in the environment. The indigenous microbial strains are more effective pesticide degrading microbes because they are survived and grow very well in particular soil environment than exo-genic microbes which brought from other agro-climatic region. In this chapter, we have attempted to discuss the recent challenge of pesticide problem in soil environment and their degradation by the use of effective indigenous pesticides degrading microorganism. Therefore, the use of pesticide degrading microbial consortia is an eco-friendly technology for sustainable agriculture production. © 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.