“…Recent reports involve the isolation and screening of many microbes for degradation of xenobiotics. Of these many agriculturally important species have been reported to be involved in the degradation of Atrazine (Sagarkar et al, 2013;Kolekar et al, 2014;Bhardwaj et al, 2015;Dutta et al, 2016); Chlorpyrifos ( Lakshmi et al, 2009;Sasikala et al, 2012;Maya et al, 2011;Dubey and Fulekar, 2012;Abraham and Silambrarasan, 2013;Maya et al, 2012;Silambarasan and Abraham, 2013;Abraham, 2014 andPailan et al, 2015); 2,4-D and phenoxy herbicides (Gauri et al, 2012;; DDT (Bajaj et al, 2014a); Endosulfan (Jesitha et al, 2015;Bajaj et al, 2014b;Giri and Rai, 2012. ) and monocrotophos (Jain et al, 2014;Acharya et al, 2015); Hexachlorocyclohexane (Negi et al, 2016); Nitroaniline, Nitrophenols, Phorate and Phenylurea herbicides.…”