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Table 3 Biosurfactant mediated bioremediation of soils contaminated with pesticides

From: Microbial glycoconjugates in organic pollutant bioremediation: recent advances and applications

Pesticides

Concentration of pesticide

Biosurfactant/biosurfactant producing microbes

Degradation (%)

References

Organochlorines

Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT)

282 µM

Trehalolipid from Rhodococcus sp. IITR03

50–60

[55]

DDT

1.417 mg/L

Pseudomonas sp. SB + Grass sp.

65.6

[150]

DDT

0.0474 mg/L

Rhamnolipids from Arthrobacter globiformis

64.3

[150]

DDT

0.25 µM

White rot fungi + biosurfactant from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis

≈ 86

[151]

α-Endosulfan

200 mg/L

Bacillus subtilis MTCC 1427

100

[21]

Endosulfan soil

320 mg/L

Pseudomonas aeruginosa + rhamnolipid

> 90

[149]

α- and β-endosulfan

50 mg/L

Arthrobacter sp. ES-47

76.3–81.8

[152]

α- and β-endosulfan

50 mg/L

Bordetella petrii I GV 34 & GV36

82–89

[153]

α-Endosulfan

1420–3400 mg/L

Consortium of Bordetella petrii

I GV 34 and Bordetella petrii II GV 36

100

[153]

β-Endosulfan

1280–3100 mg/L

Achromobacter xylosoxidans GV 47

100

[153]

Endosulfan

0.92 mg/L

Glycolipid, from Pseudomonas sp. B0406

Increased solubility

[154]

Endosulfan and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)

50 mg/L (endosulfan),

100 mg/L (HCH)

Rhamnolipid from Lysinibacillus sphaericus IITR51

Increased solubility

[155]

HCH

40 mg/L

Rhamnolipid from Pseudomonas aeruginosa + Sphingomonas sp. NM05

95

[156]

HCH

65 mg/L

Cytisus striatus plantation + Rhodococcus erythropolis ET54b

33

[157]

HCH

700 mg/L

Pseudozyma VITJzN01

3-9-fold increase in solubilization

[158]

HCH

–

Rhamnolipids

Increase solubility

[159]

Organophosphates

Methyl Parathion

–

Glycolipid from Pseudomonas sp. B0406

Increased solubility

[154]

Chlorpyrifos

10 mg/L

Pseudomonas sp. ChlD + biosurfactant

> 98

[20, 143]

Methyl parathion and ethyl parathion

500 mg/L

Glycolipid from Burkholderia cenocepacia BSP3

Increased solubility

[18]

Quinalphos

10,000 mg/L

Biosurfactant from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

94

[159]