Our Group organises 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events every year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific Societies and Publishes 700+ Open Access Journals which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.

Open Access Journals gaining more Readers and Citations
700 Journals and 15,000,000 Readers Each Journal is getting 25,000+ Readers

This Readership is 10 times more when compared to other Subscription Journals (Source: Google Analytics)

Research Article

Isolation and Characterization of a Pseudomonas fluorescens Strain Tolerant to Major Indian Water Pollutants

Samina Wasi, Shams Tabrez and Masood Ahmad*
Department of Biochemistry,Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU, Aligarh, India
Corresponding Author : Dr. Prof. Masood Ahmad
Department of Biochemistry
F/O Life Sciences, AMU,
Aligarh, India,
Tel: +91-571-2706002;
E-mail: masoodahmad1952@gmail.com, masood_amua@yahoo.co.in
Received July 23, 2010; Accepted September 08, 2010; Published September 14, 2010
Citation: Wasi S, Tabrez S, Ahmad M (2010) Isolation and Characterization of a Pseudomonas fl uorescens Strain Tolerant to Major Indian Water Pollutants. J Bioremed Biodegrad 1:101. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000101
Copyright: © 2010 Wasi S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Related article at
DownloadPubmed DownloadScholar Google

Abstract

Degradation or biotransformation of xenobiotics by members of soil microflora is an important means by which these substances are removed from the environment thus preventing from becoming a pollution problem. Several studies conducted in India suggested that the major toxicants present in surface water are heavy metals, pesticides and phenolics. The strain SM1 isolated from soil contaminated with domestic and industrial wastes of Aligarh city was characterized on the basis of morphological, cultural and biochemical properties and presumptively identifi ed as Pseudomonas fluorescens. This Pseudomonas fluorescens SM1 strain could grow well in presence of 2.34 mM Pb2+, 5.07 mM Ni2+, 11.7 mM Cu2+, 0.13 mM Cr6+ and 2.7 mM Cd2+ taken in combination in the culture medium and also seemed to utilize some pesticides namely BHC, 2,4-D, mancozeb, as well as phenolics e.g. cresol, phenols, catechol and resorcinol as the source of carbon and energy. Therefore, Pseudomonas fluorescens SM1 strain could be a good candidate for remediation of some heavy metals, phenolics and pesticides in heavily polluted sites.

Keywords

Google Scholar citation report
Citations : 7718

Journal of Bioremediation & Biodegradation received 7718 citations as per Google Scholar report

Journal of Bioremediation & Biodegradation peer review process verified at publons
Indexed In
  • CAS Source Index (CASSI)
  • Index Copernicus
  • Google Scholar
  • Sherpa Romeo
  • Open J Gate
  • Genamics JournalSeek
  • Academic Keys
  • JournalTOCs
  • ResearchBible
  • China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  • Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
  • RefSeek
  • Hamdard University
  • EBSCO A-Z
  • OCLC- WorldCat
  • SWB online catalog
  • Publons
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
  • MIAR
  • ICMJE
Share This Page
Top