In the last decades, the growing industrial activities, rapid urbanization, highest consumption
rates, and non-safe human practices have greatly increased soil pollution with …

Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed
in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles …

Lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane) is an organochlorine pesticide that has been widely
used in agriculture over the last seven decades. The increasing residues of lindane in soil …

Cypermethrin is popularly used as an insecticide in households and agricultural fields,
resulting in serious environmental contamination. Rapid and effective techniques that …

Persistency of organic chemicals is a key property in their environmental risk assessment.
Information on persistency is often derived from the results of biodegradability screening …

Increasing industrialization and anthropogenic activities have resulted in the release of a
wide variety of pollutants into the environment including pesticides, polycyclic aromatic …

Streptomyces is the main genus of Actinobacteria, which has its main industrial application
in the production of antibiotics. However, several studies have also reported that …

The scaling-up of lindane-contaminated soils bioremediation from microcosms to
mesocosms bioaugmentated with an actinobacteria quadruple culture and biostimulated …

The increasing use of various pesticides (eg, organophosphate, organochlorine,
carbamates, and pyrethroid) has helped to improve agricultural productivity by minimizing …

Lindane is a toxic and persistent organochlorine pesticide, whose extensive use generated
its accumulation in different environmental matrices. Bioremediation is a promising …