ISOLATION, MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION AND IMIDACLOPRID TOLERANCE OF HALOTOLERANT ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH NATIVE HALOPHYTES OF THE LITTLE RANN OF KUTCH, GUJARAT, INDIA
Little is known about the bacteria living inside the plants of the Little Rann of Kutch, a hypersaline desert in western India, and its culturable microbiota has barely been described at all. Imidacloprid is sprayed heavily on the farmland around the Rann, it lingers in soil, and it turns up in groundwater, so bacteria...