Microbial communities in pesticide-contaminated soils in Kyrgyzstan and bioremediation possibilities

Tinatin DOOLOTKELDİEVA | Mahabat KONURBAYEVA | Saykal BOBUŞOVA

In Kyrgyzstan, many former storehouses and dump sites for obsolete pesticides exist. In 2009/2010, an inventory and assessment of these sites including risks of environmental hazard has been conducted by FAO and the World Bank. Monitoring revealed high concentration of pesticides listed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The purpose of this research was to study the microbial structural complexes of the pesticide-contaminated soils in these dumping zones, and to search for and select microorganism’s destructors with cytochrome P450 genes for pesticide degradation. Culture-dependent and c ...Более