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Insecticide Toxicity on Indigenous Cyanobacteria from Alluvial Rice Fields

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Pesticides are used for agricultural practices affect the soil’s natural beneficial microorganisms like cyanobacteria. Effects of commonly used organochlorine and organophosphate insecticide were studied for growth and remediation potential of rice field indigenous cyanobacterial community under enrichment culture. Inhibition of species richness was noted under insecticide treatment within enriched cyanobacterial community. One unicellular strain of Aphanothece sp. and one heterocystous strain of Nostoc sp. were subjected to in vitro experiment. Effective concentration 50 (EC 50) of each insecticide was calculated for each strain. When both the strains were studied individually, they showed potentiality to minimize the insecticide concentration in insecticide-spiked growth medium. Organochlorine was found to be the most toxic. To mitigate insecticide pollution, indigenous cyanobacterial population could be used as filter for contaminated agricultural runoff.

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Acknowledgments

The research was supported by Grant DBT-WB (103-Bt/(Estt)/RD/2011-2012) and SERB-DST India (SB/YS/LS-76/2014) to MD. The author is thankful to Dr. P. Bhadury, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata, for support and encouragement. The author is thankful to the Head, Department of Botany Hooghly Mohsin College, for necessary support to conduct the study.

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Debnath, M. (2019). Insecticide Toxicity on Indigenous Cyanobacteria from Alluvial Rice Fields. In: Sukla, L., Subudhi, E., Pradhan, D. (eds) The Role of Microalgae in Wastewater Treatment . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1586-2_11

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