The microbial strategies for the management of chemical pesticides: A comprehensive review

Highlights

Chemical pesticides pose serious risks to human health and environmental sustainability, especially in soil and aquatic systems.
Microbial communities, including bacteria, fungi, and algae, offer promising, eco-friendly solutions for pesticide degradation and detoxification.
OMICs technologies unravel microbial metabolic networks, enabling the discovery of key organisms and molecular components involved in pesticide breakdown.
Emerging tools like gene editing and Artificial intelligence optimize microbial bioremediation by enhancing degradation efficiency and predictive accuracy.