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Communication to the Editor Degradation of Bromoxynil, Ioxynil, Dichlobenil and their Mixtures by Agrobacterium radiobacter 8/4

✍ Scribed by Vosáhlová, Jolana; Pavlů, Lenka; Vosáhlo, Jan; Brenner, Vladimír


Book ID
101216372
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
250 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
1526-498X

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✦ Synopsis


Degradation of three benzonitrile herbicides, bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile), ioxynil (3,5-diiodo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile), dichlobenil (2, 6-dichlorobenzonitrile), and their mixtures by the soil micro-organism Agrobacterium radiobacter 8/4 was studied in batch cultures. Bromoxynil was found to be most rapidly degraded, while dichlobenil had the lowest toxicity to our strain. All transformations of studied benzonitriles were performed by the nitrile hydratase which has been shown to act on a broad range of substituted aromatic nitriles.