Table 3.

Comparison of chlorpyrifos biodegradation efficiencies.

Study	Isolate used	Degradation (%)	Initial concentration (mg L−1)	Time to degrade (days)
Present study	Bacillus cereus Ct3	87	125	8
Chishti et al.47	Enterobacter sp. SWLC2	87	100	18
Soares et al.48	Aspergillus sydowii CBMAI 935	32	192	10
Jin et al.49	Trametes versicolor	90	150	8
Gangola et al.50	Bacillus subtilis	95	200	15
Gao et al.51	Cladosporium cladosporioides Hu-01	>90	50	5
Kulshrestha and Kumari52	Acremonium sp. (GFRC-1)	84	300	20
Zhu et al.53	Bacillus licheniformis ZHU-1	100	100	14
Anwar et al.54	Bacillus pumilus C2A1	89	1000	15
Korade and Fulekar55	Pseudomonas nitroreducens PS-2	100	100	28
Fang et al.56	Verticillium sp. DSP	100	100	7
Li et al.57	Sphingomonas sp.	98	30	10