Degradation of parathion by bacteria isolated from flooded soil.
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- Vol. 26 (6) , 846-9
Abstract
Two bacteria, Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp., were isolated from parathionamended flooded alluvial soil which exhibited parathion-hydrolyzing ability. Bacillus sp. readily liberated nitrite from the hydrolysis product, p-nitrophenol, but not from intact parathion. Pseudomonas sp. hydrolyzed parathion and then released nitrite from p-nitrophenol. These studies establish bacterial degradation of parathion past the p-nitrophenol stage to the end product, nitrite.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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