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Use of atrazine sensitive leguminous plants as biological indicators to evaluate the atrazine degradation efficiency of a bacterial inoculum

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Atrazine sensitive leguminous plants were grown in a soil spiked with atrazine and augmented with an atrazine-degrading bacterium, Arthrobacter sp. strain MCM B-436, to ascertain its degradative efficiency. Germination and survival of plants was correlated with atrazine removal from soil. This experiment was carried out at laboratory as well as field level, showing consistent results. This bioindicator approach serves as an efficient measure for atrazine removal and could be easily adapted to determine atrazine degradation efficiency of other microbial strains.

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This work was carried out under Indo-Swiss collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB) BR1 entitled “Development of phytoremediation technique using interactive potential of plant and microbial activities for pesticides hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and atrazine”. Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Govt. of Switzerland.

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  1. Microbial Sciences Division, Agharkar research Institute, G.G.Agarkar road, Pune, 411004, India

    Parag A. Vaishampayan & Pradnya P. Kanekar

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Vaishampayan, P.A., Kanekar, P.P. Use of atrazine sensitive leguminous plants as biological indicators to evaluate the atrazine degradation efficiency of a bacterial inoculum. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 23, 447–449 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-006-9240-3

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