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Science 18 November 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3751, pp. 893 - 895
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3751.893
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Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pesticides: Degradation by Microbes

C. I. Chacko 1, J. L. Lockwood 1, and Matthew Zabik 2

1 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
2 Department of Entomology

In culture, most of the actinomycetes and filamentous fungi tested degraded PCNB; several actinomycetes dechlorinated DDT to DDD, but no microorganism degraded dieldrin. Streptomyces aureofaciens degraded PCNB to pentachloroaniline.


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