Nisha P., Eldho P. George and Priya Prakash
Unscientific and wide spread use of pesticides resulted in pollution of whole environment leads to serious health hazard and some are persist in soil and ground water. Pesticides will encounter the degradation when applied to soil by microbial, chemical and photo degradation. Microbial degradation is the breakdown of pesticides by fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms that use pesticide as a nutrient source. Today more than 10% of the pesticides in market are carcinogens. Around 1000 pesticide formulations using throughout the world .In the present study, the Carbofuran(CF) degradation was checked with 3 Bacillus sp, Micrococci sp, and Klebsiella sp were isolated from Carbofuran pre treated plantain field from different parts of Ernakulam district. The bacteria were characterized by biochemical reactions and were identified based on Bergey’s Manual determinative bacteriology. Different concentration of Carbofuran-5gm, 10gm, 15gm, 20gm, 25gm were treated with each organism. All the test organisms showed the degradation of Carbofuran in all concentrations. Bacillus sp (E3) shows comparatively more degradation of Carbofuran .Therefore these 5 bacterial strains can be used for bioremediation of Carbofuran polluted areas.
