Which microbial property of soil may be more suitable to study the effect of pesticides on soil health?

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D. Kalaivanan

Dear Phogat

First you enumerate the population of bacteria, fungus and actinomycetes before and after application of pesticide in soil. From this information you can find out the effect of pesticides on soil health

Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi

Dear Dr. Phogat,

I suggest microbial respiration and enzyme activity.

With kind regards,

Sohel S Shaikh

Respected sir

What do you want to check? First i think first u shld determine the cfu of bacteria and fungus.

i have done soil analysis before and microbial count before doing pot asay

Om Parkash Toky

Microbial biomass estimation could be one important study to see the tolerance of pesticides...

V.K. Phogat

Thank you, Dr Toky

My pleasure. All the best.