Increasing population has raised the demand for food grains, which compels
the producers for the heavy use of pesticides to meet the demand for sufficient
production of food grains. Heavy utilization of pesticides polluted soil, water, plant,
animal, food grains, etc. Additionally, that much utilization of pesticides has also
created several legal and illegal contaminated sites across the world, which are
continuously polluting the environment. There are several methods available for
pesticide treatment, but the bioremediation method has been more promising than the
others. Bioremediation of pesticides is carried out through either ex situ or in situ
methods using different organisms like bacteria, fungi and higher plants. The pesticides
degradation using bacteria, fungi and higher plants is called bacterial degradation,
mycodegradation and phytodegradation, respectively. Present review discusses
different methods, mechanisms and recent tools used for the bioremediation of
pesticides.
Keywords: Bacteria, Bioremediation, Food grains, Fungi, Mycodegradation and phytodegradation, Pesticides.
