Authors : Rashi Kadu and Kirti Dubey
Page Nos : 32-35
Description :
Among the different contaminants, detergent as an important pollutant has serious risks on soil microbial population. Environmental soil get contaminated when the residuals of detergents are dispersed into it after use and thus this has an effect on decreased microbial growth of soil. Synthetic detergents can destroy organisms that live in the soil and synthesize food into nutrients. Nitrogen fixing bacteria provides vital nutrients to plants that they cannot obtain from the air themselves. Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms do assimilated Nitrogen for them. Biological nitrogen fixation serves as an important factor for agricultural crops and plants. Present study reports the estimation of total population of microbes in soil contaminated by detergents and nitrogen fixation ability of soil. In this review, the environmental impacts of synthetic surfactants on microbial population in soil as well as on nitrogen fixers are explored.
