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Application of biodegradation in mitigating and remediating pesticide contamination of freshwater resources: state of the art and challenges for optimization

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In recent years, the application of pesticide biodegradation in remediation of pesticide-contaminated matrices moved from remediating bulk soil to remediating and mitigating pesticide pollution of groundwater and surface water bodies. Specialized pesticide-degrading microbial populations are used, which can be endogenous to the ecosystem of interest or introduced by means of bioaugmentation. It involves (semi-)natural ecosystems like agricultural fields, vegetated filter strips, and riparian wetlands and man-made ecosystems like on-farm biopurification systems, groundwater treatment systems, and dedicated modules in drinking water treatment. Those ecosystems and applications impose challenges which are often different from those associated with bulk soil remediation. These include high or extreme low pesticide concentrations, mixed contamination, the presence of alternative carbon sources, specific hydraulic conditions, and spatial and temporal variation. Moreover, for various indicated ecosystems, limited knowledge exists about the microbiota present and their physiology and about the in situ degradation kinetics. This review reports on the current knowledge on applications of biodegradation in mitigating and remediating freshwater pesticide contamination. Attention is paid to the challenges involved and current knowledge gaps for improving those applications.

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This study was funded by the FP7 projects BIOTREAT (EU grant no. 266039), BACSIN (EU grant no. 211684), AQUAREHAB (EU grant no. 226565), and GOODWATER (EU grant no. 212683), by the Inter-University Attraction Pole (IUAP) “μ-manager” of the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO, P7/25), the Danish Council for Strategic Research project MIRESOWA (grant no. 2104-08-0012), the FWO post-doctoral fellow grant no. 12Q0215N to B. Horemans, the FWO project grant no. G.OA53.15N, and the C14/15/043 project of KU Leuven.

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Vandermaesen, J., Horemans, B., Bers, K. et al. Application of biodegradation in mitigating and remediating pesticide contamination of freshwater resources: state of the art and challenges for optimization. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 100, 7361–7376 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-016-7709-z

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