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How do microbes reduces the environmental degradation causes by chemicals?

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Chemicals from fertilisers and pesticides are highly toxic to human beings and animals alike and have been polluting our environment. To reduce the environmental degradation caused by chemicals, microbes can be used both as fertiliseres and pesticides and can be called biofertilisers and biopesticides, respectively Microbes are used as biofertilisers to enrich the soil nutrients, e.g., Rhizobium Azotobacter, Azospirillum, etc, which can fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria act as biopesticides to control the growth of insect pests. Trichoderma, fungal species is effective bicontrol agent of several plant pathogens. Baculovirus used a biological control agents in genus Nucleopolyhedrovirus are excellent for species-specific, narrow spectrum insecticidal applications.
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