PARAQUAT IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED HERBICIDES IN THE WORLD. THIS CHEMICAL COMPOUND IS USED IN NEARLY 90 COUNTRIES FOR CONTROLLING WEEDS IN MORE THAN 100 CROPS, INCLUDING MAJOR FOOD CROPS SUCH AS CORN, RICE, SOYA, WHEAT, POTATO; MAJOR FRUITS: APPLES, ORANGES, BANANAS; AND PROCESSED CROPS: COTTON, OIL PALM, SUGARCANE, AND RUBBER. IT IS A QUICK ACTING, NON-SELECTIVE HERBICIDE, WHICH DESTROYS GREEN PLANT TISSUE ON CONTACT AND BY TRANSLOCATION WITHIN THE PLANT. PARAQUAT IS NOT ONLY TOXIC FOR HUMAN, MAMMALS AND BIRDS, ALSO HAS NEGATIVE EFFECT ON NATURAL SOIL MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEM [1]. ONE OF THE MAJOR MICROBIAL GROUPS THAT CAN BE AFFECTED BY THIS SUBSTANCE IS phosphate solubilizing bacteria IN SOIL [2]. THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO EVALUATE THE IN-VITRO EFFECT OF PARAQUAT ON THIS GROUP OF bacteria. FIVE DIFFERENT DOSES OF COMMERCIAL PARAQUAT (250, 500, 1000, 2500 AND 5000PPM) ON ONE SELECTED THE phosphate solubilizing bacteria ISOLATE (PESUDOMONAS SP.) WERE TESTED IN LABORATORY CONDITION. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT THIS HERBICIDE HAS COMPLETE LETHAL EFFECT ON bacteria IN FIELD RECOMMENDED DOSE (1000PPM). IN LOWER (250-500PPM) DOSES ALSO bacteria GROWTH WAS STOP 3 DAYS AFTER EXPOSITING TO THE PARAQUAT.