As the usage of petroleum hydrocarbon products increases soil contamination with diesel and engine oil is becoming one of the major environmental problems. Bioremediation provides an effective and efficient strategy to speed up the cleanup processes. For this purpose our aim was to isolate some of the indigenous hydrocarbon degrading microorganisms and to do their mutational and molecular characterization. We could isolate some of the microorganisms i.e. Staphylococcus spp., and Corynebacterium spp. out of which Corynebacterium spp. had shown the maximum cell density when allowed to grow in...

Alkaloids are the source of prevention of human and their foodstuffs from microorganism and fungus. In which fungi are destroyers of food stuffs and grains during storage, and converted them unfit for human by retarding their nutritive value and produce myotoxins. Medicinal plants are part and parcel of human society to combat diseases, from the dawn of civilization. Azadirachta indica (neem), Aegle marmelos (bael), Citrus sinensis (orange), Emblica officinalis (Indian Gooseberry) are well known in India and its neighboring countries for more than 2000 years as one of the most...