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Engineered bacteria teams clean up old pesticide in wetland mud and cut methane
PubMed · 2026-08-28
Teams of soil bacteria assembled by researchers broke down a persistent banned pesticide called lindane in wetland sediment, cutting it to roughly 56-63% of its starting level. They also lowered methane production, so cleanup could come with a climate benefit.
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Inoculated sediment reduced γ-HCH to 63.0% (consortium M) and 56.1% (consortium Y13) of the starting concentration.
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Inoculation significantly suppressed the CO2-reduction methanogenesis pathway (P < 0.05), with a lower CH4/CO2 ratio than non-inoculated controls.
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The degradation gene pceA was enriched in Y13 and found on contigs alongside mobile genetic elements; Enterococcus colonized inoculated sediments and may gain degradation genes via horizontal gene transfer.