Microbial response to repeated applications of low concentrations of pentachlorophenol in an alfisol under pasture

Synergistic biodegradation of pentachlorophenol by Bacillus cereus (DQ002384), Serratia marcescens (AY927692) and Serratia marcescens (DQ002385)

“…from PCP aromatic ring during dechlorination in the medium (Martins et al 1997). This phenomenon indicated that PCP degradation was occurring.…”

“…MSM containing PCP without inoculum was used as control for the PCP degradation. The confirmatory test for the tolerance and accumulation of PCP by these mixed culture were performed using bromocresol purple (BCP-16 mg/l) containing MSM (Martins et al 1997).…”

Isolation of diuron-degrading bacteria from treated soil

“…Acinetobacter strains with the ability to metabolise glyphosate as well as aminomethylphosphonate (Chung et al, 1996), diuron (Roque et al, 1998) and diclofop-methyl (Smithgrenier et al, 1996), when added in mineral medium as the only carbon source, have been isolated from heavily polluted streams. Acinetobacter has also been found to degrade several other products like PCBs (Brunner et al, 1985;Furukawa et al, 1983) and phenols (Martins et al, 1997;Hoyle et al, 1995). The objective of this study was to evaluate the mineralization of 14 C-diuron in a Brazilian soil with and without any application, and to isolate the microorganisms responsible for that.…”

Isolation and characterization of two potential pentachlorophenol degrading aerobic bacteria from pulp paper effluent sludge

“…Glucose (0.5 and 1% w/v) was used as an additional carbon source. PCP utilization by the growing bacterial strain was confirmed by addition of bromo-cresol purple (BCP, 16 mg/L), a pH dependent dye indicator (Martins et al, 1997).…”