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Bioremediation of Polluted Soil Obtained from Tarai Bhavan Region of Uttrakhand, India
| Rajdeo Kumar1, Ashish Chauhan2*, Nisha Yadav1, Laxmi Rawat1 and Manish Kumar Goyal2 | |
| 1Forest Ecology and Environment Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India | |
| 2National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Ashish Chauhan National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Mohali, India Tel: +919464616773 E-mail: aashishchauhan26@gmail.com |
| Received December 08, 2014; Accepted January 28, 2015; Published January 30, 2015 | |
| Citation: Kumar R, Chauhan A, Yadav N, Rawat L, Goyal MK (2015) Bioremediation of Polluted Soil obtained from Tarai Bhavan Region of Uttrakhand, India. J Bioremed Biodeg 6:276. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000276 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Kumar R, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
The rapid industrialization in Tarai Bhavan region of Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand has exposed the soil and water industrial effluent rich in pesticides like chlorophenols that are adversely affecting the ecosystem and disturbing the food chain. Soil is the basic requirement to sustain life on this earth for the living being including human beings, animals, planet or microorganisms (like bacteria and fungi). Bioremediation to remove pollutants is economic than the equivalent physico-chemical methods. It offers the potential to treat contaminated soil and ground water at the site without excavation. It requires lesser input and preserves the frame. The most attractive feature of bioremediation is the reduced impact on the ecosystems. In this study, both the microorganisms of bacteria and fungi P. fluorescence and P. chrysosporium were inoculated in fresh minimal salt medium containing 0, 10, 50, 100, 200 and 500 ppm of pentachlorophenol (PCP) concentrations in separate flask for few hours (4, 8, 16 and 32) and their potentiality to degrade PCP was assessed and found to be fruitful.
