isolation and characterisation of microorganisms involved and used as biopesticides

[vishnu147]

Agriculture is the lynchpin of the Indian economy. Ensuring food security for more than 1 bn Indian population with
diminishing cultivable land resource necessitates use of high yielding variety of seeds, balanced use of fertilizers and
judicious use of quality pesticides. Pesticides are the chemical substances that kill pests like fungi, insects, worms,
and nematodes etc. which cause damage to field crops. The excessive use of pesticides leads to an accumulation of a
huge amount of pesticide residues in the food chain and drinking water environment that further leads to a
substantial health hazard for the current and future generations due to uptake and accumulation of these toxic
compounds. Bioremediation constitutes an attractive alternative to physico-chemical methods of remediation, as it is
less expensive and can selectively achieve complete destruction of organic pollutants [2]. In bioremediation,
microbes that can degrade the pesticides in situ are used. For a successful bioremediation technique an efficient
bacterial strain that can degrade largest pollutant to minimum level is required.

[mukulsitapur]

i would like to get details on isolation and characterisation of microorganisms involved and used as biopesticides