Glyphosate Utilization as the Source of Carbon: Isolation and Identification of new Bacteria.

Nourouzi, M. Mohsen; Chuah, T. G.; Choong, Thomas S. Y.; Lim, C. J.

Mixed bacteria from oil palm plantation soil (OPS) were isolated to investigate their ability to utilize glyphosate as carbon source. Results showed that approximately all of the glyphosate was converted to aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) (99.5%). It is worthy to note that mixed bacteria were able to degrade only 2% of AMPA to further metabolites. Two bacterial strains i.e. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Providencia alcalifaciens were obtained from enrichment culture. Bacterial isolates were cultured individually on glyphosate as a sole carbon source. It was observed that both isolates were able to convert glyphosate to AMPA.

ORGANOPHOSPHORUS compounds; FUNGUS-bacterium relationships; GLYCINE; PALM oil; BIOLOGICAL products

E-Journal of Chemistry, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 4, p1582

0973-4945

Academic Journal

10.1155/2011/614109