Objective The extensive pollution of natural ecosystems has occurred by organophosphorus pesticides, being used for improvement of crop production in agriculture. Biodegradation is interested in application of multifunctional bacteria containing genetical elements which specially degrade organophosphorus compounds. In this paper the detection of two bacteria species, Pseudomonas and Flavobacte...

background petroleum hydrocarbons are mix compounds and divided into four groups: saturates, aromatics, resins and asphalten. among various phases of crude-oil, the alkanes with medium length chain are favorable substrates that rapidly degraded, although short-chain alkanes are very toxic and long-chain alkanes have low solubility in water that reduce its bioavailability and make resistant to b...

background: polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) are synthetic aromatic compounds containing two benzene rings with one to ten chlorine atoms. there are concerns about the health risks of these compounds in the environment due to their toxicity, persistence, and biological accumulation. pcbs wastes must be treated before being discharged to the environment because they will pollute the water, soil,...