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Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Pesticides: Experiences in Mexico

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The worldwide use of pesticides for pest control in agriculture and some industrial processes has contributed to improve the food and goods production. However, their intensive use has resulted in the release of a wide range of xenobiotic compounds to the environment, widespread among air, water, and soil. The existence of contaminated sites is an important environmental and health concern today. For the treatment of pesticide-contaminated soil, several strategies involving biological, physicochemical, and thermal processes have been developed to remediate them, being the bioremediation approaches, among the more successful because they are environmental friendly, economic, and versatile. The pesticide soil pollution on Mexico, as around the world, is a serious concern, so that different research groups had developed biological strategies for the assessment of pesticide biodegradation, and bioattenuation, biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and composting schemes for the treatment, remediation, and detoxification of pesticide-contaminated sites. In this chapter we present information about involved processes in bioremediation of soils contaminated with pesticides and particularize on the status of pesticides in Mexico as well as the efforts undertaken in the biodegradation of pesticides and the potential for their application in contaminated soil bioremediation.

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    M. Laura Ortiz-Hernández, Alexis Rodríguez & Enrique Sánchez-Salinas

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Ortiz-Hernández, M.L., Rodríguez, A., Sánchez-Salinas, E., Castrejón-Godínez, M.L. (2014). Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Pesticides: Experiences in Mexico. In: Alvarez, A., Polti, M. (eds) Bioremediation in Latin America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05738-5_5

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