In the last decades, the growing industrial activities, rapid urbanization, highest consumption
rates, and non-safe human practices have greatly increased soil pollution with …

Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed
in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles …

Industrial activities that consume water generate wastewater as a by-product of processing
which introduces various contaminants such as heavy metals into the neighbouring water …

Over the past two decades, various eco-friendly approaches utilizing microbial species to
clean up contaminated environments have surfaced. In this aspect, actinobacteria have …

Chromium is a naturally occurring element found in rocks, animals, plants, soil and in
volcanic dust and gases. It exists in different oxidation states that range from+ 2 to+ 6. The …

The anthropogenic inputs of hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] have increased enormously
during the past few decades and has become a challenge for life on earth and hence …

Heavy metal pollution is of great concern. Due to expansion of industrial activities, a large
amount of metal is released into the environment, disturbing its fragile balance …

Increasing industrialization and anthropogenic activities have resulted in the release of a
wide variety of pollutants into the environment including pesticides, polycyclic aromatic …

Microbial bioremediation of heavy metals-polluted industrial effluents has been adopted as
one of the most effective eco-friendly tool to cope up with the harmful effects of metals. This …

Environments co-contaminated with metals and organic compounds are difficult to
remediate. Actinobacteria is an important group of microorganisms found in soils, with high …