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Bioremediation of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Pollution at HCH Dump Sites

Authors : Shailly Anand, Jaya Malhotra, Neha Niharika, Devi Lal, Swati Jindal, Jaspreet Kaur, Aeshna Nigam, Nidhi Garg, Pushp Lata, Jasvinder Kaur, Naseer Sangwan, Amit Kumar Singh, Ankita Dua, Anjali Saxena, Vatsala Dwivedi, Udita Mukherjee, Rup Lal

Published in: Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Globally, the period from early the 1950s to late 1980s has shown an increased use of primarily three pesticides namely DDT.

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Metadata
Title
Bioremediation of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Pollution at HCH Dump Sites
Authors
Shailly Anand
Jaya Malhotra
Neha Niharika
Devi Lal
Swati Jindal
Jaspreet Kaur
Aeshna Nigam
Nidhi Garg
Pushp Lata
Jasvinder Kaur
Naseer Sangwan
Amit Kumar Singh
Ankita Dua
Anjali Saxena
Vatsala Dwivedi
Udita Mukherjee
Rup Lal
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_23