Isolation and characterization of Pseudomonas from oil spill soil under temperate climatic conditions

Abstract

The present study was carried out for isolation and characterization of Pseudomonas from oil spill soil and 10 isolates were isolated from different locations employing different morphological and biochemical attributes and on the basis of phosphate solubilisation and chitinase production three Pseudomonas isolates were employed in microbial consortium and used as effective microbe for treatment of STPs and different parameters were studied like N,P, K,C heavy metals, BOD and COD and it was found there was a decrease from original values after addition of Pseudomonas with other microbes.