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Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pesticides: Degradation by Microbes
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1966
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MycologyEnvironmental ChemistryDegraded PcnbEngineeringSeveral ActinomycetesBiotransformationFilamentous FungiBiotechnologyMicrobial EcologyEnvironmental MicrobiologyEcotoxicologyMicrobiologyEnvironmental ToxicologyPublic HealthFungal BiologyChemical PollutionHydrocarbon PesticidesMicrobiological Degradation
In culture, most of the actinomycetes and filamentous fungi tested degraded PCNB; several actinomycetes dechlorinated DDT to DDD, but no microorganism degraded dieldrin. Streptomyces aureofaciens degraded PCNB to pentachloroaniline.
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