A Brief Correspondence on Glyphosate Remediation using Microbes and Mineral Sources

Abstract

Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide used to control a large variety of annual and perennial weeds. Its pervasive use, however, has harmful implications for living things and the environment. Aside from that, it affects aquatic ecosystems and soil microbial biota, resulting in a loss of soil fertility and, therefore, reduced plant growth and production, all of which has an effect on the food chain. Various techniques have been used to exclude glyphosate from contaminated habitats, but microbial depletion and the use of nitrogen, phosphorus, and plant growth regulators, as well as the use of glyphosate resistant crops, either singly or in combination, are the most environmentally sustainable and cost-effective options. Microbes release basic elements in the soil by their enzymatic processes, and they play an important role in improving plant growth and phytoremediation capacity by lowering the total toxicity of a pollutant to plants. Furthermore, dehydrogenase and urease processes, which are known to be the most critical measures of overall microbial development, are greatly influenced by nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. In addition, plant growth regulators improve the glyphosate contaminated soil as well. The present review discusses the glyphosate effects and its possible solution in terms of organic and inorganic amendments.