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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present investigation deals with screening and isolation of Methyl parathion (MP) degrading bacteria from local agriculture soil and study of its biodetoxification efficiency in vitro using potential Pseudomonas sp R2. The potent isolates that could degrade Methyl Parathion were identified as Pseudomonas species R1, R2 and R3 respectively. Effect of pH and temperature on growth profile of these isolate revealed 30ËšC as the optimum temperature at 500μg/ml. But, the growth was optimized at pH 7 and 37ËšC to be used for an added advantage in cloning the Methyl Parathion degrading (mpd) in E. coli. The three Pseudomonas isolates were found to tolerate a concentration of 3800µg/ml and R2 isolate identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa species which is capable of degrading 1920µg/ml MP after 48 hrs in in vitro studies.