Isolation and Characterisation of Pesticides Degrading Bacteria from Pesticide Industrial Waste

Abstract

Pesticides are either a chemical or biological agents who destroy, incapacitate, kills and discourages pests. Most of the pests are chemicals but certain viruses, bacteria and their products are also used as pesticides. These pests act on the insects, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes (roundworms) and pathogenic microbes which are responsible for destroy property, cause nuisance, or spread disease, or are disease carrier. According to the The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) could be defined pesticide as: newline any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the production, processing, storage, transport, or marketing of food, agricultural commodities, wood and wood products or animal feedstuffs, or substances that may be administered to animals for the control of insects, arachnids, or other pests in or on their bodies. The term includes substances intended for use as a plant growth regulator, defoliant, desiccant, or agent for thinning fruit or preventing the premature fall of fruit. Also used as substances applied to crops either before or after harvest to protect the commodity from deterioration during storage and transport. newline newline