Atrazine Bioremediation and Its Influence on Soil Microbial Diversity by Metagenomics Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Pesticide accumulation in agricultural soils is an environmental concern, often addressed through distinct bioremediation strategies. This study has tried to analyze various soil bioremediation options viz., biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and natural attenuation in terms of efficiency and the response of autochthonous microbial flora by using atrazine as a model contaminant. Soil mesocosms were established with 100 kg of soil simulating the field conditions. The soil previously exposed to the herbicide was used for the bioaugmentation strategy undertaken in this study. We have tried to analyze how the microbial community responds to a foreign compound, both in terms of taxonomic and functional capacities? To answer this, we have analyzed metagenome of the mesocosms at a time point when 9

SUBMITTER: Bhardwaj P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329956 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature