The cometabolic degradation of thiocarbamate herbicides by Streptomyces sp. strain M2, has been investigated together with the effects of molinate on the cell physiology of the strain during the secondary metabolism. The phylogenetic position of the strain M2 was characterised by partial sequencing of the 16S rDNA. The sequence of 422 nucleotides at the 3’ end of the 16S rDNA showed 97.196% ide...

Herbicide use has provided agriculture with cost effective weed control and cont inued good crop yields, bu t occasional complications and adverse effects have been observed in the field. A recent review (1) discussed the effect of herbicides on plant diseases. Other studies have repor ted on the effects of herbicides on nematode infected crop plants (2,5,6,7,8,9,10,12). Effects ranged from agg...

Vellozia gigantea is a rare, ancient, and endemic neotropical plant present in the Brazilian Rupestrian grasslands. The dichloromethane extract of V. gigantea adventitious roots was phytotoxic against Lactuca sativa, Agrostis stolonifera, and Lemna paucicostata, and showed larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti. Phytotoxicity bioassay-directed fractionation of the extract revealed one new is...

Second-order rate constants of the direct ozone reactions [formula: see text] and the indirect OH radical reactions [formula: see text] for nine chemicals on the US EPA's Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) were studied during the ozonation and ozone/hydrogen peroxide advanced oxidation process (O(3)/H(2)O(2) AOP) using batch reactors. Except for the thiocarbamate herbicides (molina...

Green pigweed [Amaranthus powellii S.Wats.] is a prolific annual dicot weed that prominent of crop production in northeastern North America. interference has been documented to reduce corn yields up 54% the absence control strategies. In 2021, green biotype from field near Dresden, Ontario, Canada was determined be resistant MCPA, mecoprop, dichlorprop-p, aminocyclopyrachlor (synthetic auxins),...

This research evaluated what ammonia concentration causes pullets or young laying hens to show an aversion. Because previous studies had shown conflicting data for laying hen aversion at 25 ppm ammonia, this aversion was tested with pullets and young laying hens in the current study. The test birds used in this study had not previously experienced elevated ammonia concentrations and thus their ...

A cytochrome P-450 system in Rhodococcus strains, encoded by thcB, thcC, and thcD, participates in the degradation of thiocarbamates and several other pesticides. The regulation of the system was investigated by fusing a truncated lacZ in frame to thcB, the structural gene for the cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase. Analysis of the thcB-lacZ fusion showed that the expression of thcB was 10-fold hig...