Study and Identification of Potent Degrader of Chlorpyrifos Pesticide

Microbial degradation of chemicals in the environment is an important route for removal of harmful compounds. These compounds
range from plastics through organic chemicals (both industrial chemicals used in large quantities and trace chemicals such as pesticides)
to organometallics such as methylmercury. The largest volume of pesticides produced and sold comprises the chlorinated hydrocarbons.
These compounds composed of hydrogen, chlorine and carbon atoms.
Microbial degradation of pesticides such as 2, 4,-D, Alachlor, Amitrole, Chlorsulfuron, DDT etc applied to soil is the principle
mechanism which prevents the accumulation of these chemicals in the environment. Here in this paper is maily based on identifying the
the organisms that can degrade cholorpyrifos. This is done using techniques mainly by colony counting method. Microorganisms are
also grown on BTB plates which indicate the color change and it’s mainly a PH indicator. Then degradation studies is performed .From
this degradation studies the best organism utilizing cholrpyrifos as carbon source is identified and then Thin layer chromatography is
performed. As per the experimental results it is found that SD 31 and CD 31 are the one with good degradation values and utilizes CPP
efficiently as the carbon source