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  • Title: Isolation and characterisation of Rhodococcus erythropolis TA57 able to degrade the triazine amine product from hydrolysis of sulfonylurea pesticides in soils.
    Author: Andersen SM, Mortensen HS, Bossi R, Jacobsen CS.
    Journal: Syst Appl Microbiol; 2001 Jul; 24(2):262-6. PubMed ID: 11518330.
    Abstract:
    We isolated a bacterium capable of metabolising a methylated and methoxylated s-triazine ring as the only nitrogen source. On a weight basis, the s-triazine, commonly named triazine amine (TAM), constitutes approx. half of several sulfonylurea herbicides and is formed after hydrolysis of these herbicides. The isolate, strain TA57 was identified using multi-phasic taxonomy as a gram-positive Rhodococcus erythropolis. Strain TA57 mineralised over 50% 14C-labelled TAM within 4 days in growing cultures using all of the nitrogen for growth. The degradation capacity was found stable in cells grown on either tryptic soy broth agar plates or in minimal medium with NH4+. Among other s-triazines tested, only one other methylated, but de-methoxylated s-triazine amine supported growth. Inoculating 10(6) cells of TA57 per gram of soil (d.w.) resulted in 50% mineralisation of 14C labelled TAM (1 mg kg(-1)) within 25 days, in contrary to the indigenous population that mineralised only 6% in 50 days.
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