Characterization of a carbofuran-degradi
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Ian M. Head; Ronald B. Cain; David L. Suett
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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A bacterium capable of using the carbamate insecticide carbofuran as a sole source of carbon and energy, was isolated from soil. The ability to catabolise carbofuran phenol, produced by cleavage of the carbamate ester linkage of the insecticide, was lost at very high frequency when the bacterium was