Biotechnological tools based lithospheric management of toxic Pyrethroid pesticides: a critical evaluation

ABSTRACT

In the previous decades, the natural deposits of Pyrethroids (PYs) have massively expanded because of extensive applications. Increasingly more PYs stay in the environment constitute serious lethality to humans, plants and animals. An expansion in risky contamination into the environ causes issues. In the present situation, contamination of soil is one of the worldwide issue. Soil health is an integrative property of soil that supports agricultural sustainability. Carbon regulation in soil plays a major role in climate change in the soil system. Various remediation technologies including oxidation, photo degradation, adsorption, and bacterial degradation are used but bacterial degradation has developed as an economical, natural, feasible methodology which can re-establish the sullied soil with the assistance of microorganisms that make bioremediation an eco-sustainable technology for environmental management. This review aims the significant procedures engaged with upgrading bioremediation and current advances in micro-organisms related bioremediation. It also sums up the present information in regards to PYs-debasing microorganisms alongside biodegradation components, metabolic pathways, and the microbial remediation of PYs–sullied environs. Abundant PY-debasing microorganism has been detached, but there is a great deal of work to accomplish for the application in bio-remediation of PYs-tainted environs. An integrated sustainable approach linked with soil health may contribute a significant resilience under adverse conditions. The effect of the pesticides on soil wellbeing is as yet a present and significant issue, which requires steady checking.

KEYWORDS:

• Deltamethrin
• cypermethrin
• permethrin
• bioremediation
• soil health

Acknowledgments

The concept, idea, data and writing is the intellectual property right of Dr. Khuram Shahzad Ahmad and Lab E-21 of Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, The Mall, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Author want to thank Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, The Mall, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan for the provisioning of the technical and financial facilities needed for the completion of this work.

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