A simple test for adaptation of soil microorganisms to the degradation of the insecticide Carbofuran
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B
- Vol. 20 (3) , 313-319
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03601238509372481
Abstract
Soils in which the microbial community had adapted to degrade carbofuran could be readily distinguished from unadapted soils by incubating a small quantity of the soil in an aqueous buffer containing 10 ppm carbofuran for 7 days. Adapted soils were characterized by a significant reduction (>90%) of the carbofuran concentration and a simultaneous increase in concentration of the stable phenolic hydrolysis product as determined by direct HPLC analysis of the solution. A simple colour test for the phenol also provided a measure of the activity of the soil toward carbofuran.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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