Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pesticides: Degradation by Microbes
- 18 November 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 154 (3751), 893-895
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.154.3751.893
Abstract
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.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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