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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1644</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2017.9137</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Characterization of Insoluble Organophosphate Degrading Bacteria Isolated from the Root of Citrus Plant&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Saha</surname><given-names>Sangita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mandal</surname><given-names>Tanusri</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>3</day><month>07</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>38</fpage><lpage>44</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim: To degrade the water insoluble toxic and non-toxic organophosphate compounds into non-toxic water soluble compounds. Plants consume water soluble components from the soil as nutrients. Methods: Dilution plate technique with modified Pikovskaya media has been used to isolate the organophosphate degrading bacteria. Three different water insoluble toxic organophosphate insecticides such as chlorpyrifos, methyl-parathion, phorate and two different water insoluble non-toxic organophosphate compounds present in soil such as calcium phytate, lecithin have been used for this study. Organophosphate solubilizing efficiency test, biochemical characterization, antibiotic test, 16S rDNA sequencing, phylogenetic analysis, LC-MS analysis and biofertilization test have been performed. Results: A potent organophosphate degrading bacteria has been identified as Enterobacter aerogenes strain STLR-I on the basis of NCBI database. The accession number provided by GenBank is KX352268. We have named the bacteria as RZ311 can degrade calcium phytate, chlorpyrifos, methyl-parathion and phorate but it cannot degrade soy-lecithin. Biochemical test and antibiotic test have been shown in the table. The LC-MS data shows the biodegradable compounds present in the media are ammonium polyphosphate, ammonium phosphate, P2 O5 and hypophosphite ion, malic acid, acetic acid, phosphoric acid, gluconic acid etc. The significant vigor index with higher germination percentage of Cicer arietinum seeds have been found for all types of treated inoculum. Discussion: It has been identified as a potent organophosphate biodegrader and bioremidiater with significant biofertilization activity. Conclusion: RZ311, can be used to degrade insoluble toxic and non-toxic organophosphate compounds from environment. The degraded compounds are consumed by the plants for growth&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Organophosphate</kwd><kwd> Biodegradation</kwd><kwd> Enterobacter</kwd><kwd> Biofertilizer</kwd><kwd> LC-MS</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
