Emerging Strategies for the Bioremediation of the Phenylurea Herbicide Diuron
fmicb-12-686509 August 6, 2021 Time: 15:23 # 1 REVIEW published: 12 August 2021 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.686509 Emerging Strategies for the Bioremediation of the Phenylurea Herbicide Diuron Jiayi Li1,2, Wenping Zhang1,2, Ziqiu Lin1,2, Yaohua Huang1,2, Pankaj Bhatt1,2 and Shaohua Chen1,2* 1 State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, 2 Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, China Diuron (DUR) is a phenylurea herbicide widely used for the effective control of most annual and perennial weeds in farming areas. The extensive use of DUR has led to its widespread presence in soil, sediment, and aquatic environments, which poses a threat to non-target crops, animals, humans, and ecosystems. Therefore, the removal of DUR from contaminated environments has been a hot topic for researchers in recent decades. Bioremediation seldom leaves harmful intermediate metabolites and is emerging as the most effective and eco-friendly strategy for removing DUR from Edited by: the environment. Microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes, can Xingxing Peng, Sun Yat-sen University, China use DUR as their sole source of carbon. Some of them have been isolated, including Reviewed by: organisms from the bacterial genera Arthrobacter, Bacillus, Vagococcus, Burkholderia, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Micrococcus, Stenotrophomonas, and Pseudomonas and fungal genera Aspergillus, Institut National de la Recherche Pycnoporus, Pluteus, Trametes, Neurospora, Cunninghamella, and Mortierella. A Agronomique (INRA), France Alessandro D’Annibale, number of studies have investigated the toxicity and fate of DUR, its degradation Tuscia University, Italy pathways and metabolites, and DUR-degrading hydrolases and related genes.
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