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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 23, Pages 10249-10259Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6828-2
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Atrazine degradation; Bioremediation; Quantitative PCR; Microautoradiography; C-14-mineralization
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- Academy of Finland [12482]
- Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi [G-1649]
- EnSTe graduate school
- NORDFORSK Nordic Environmental Nucleotide Network
- Danish Research Council for Strategic Research via the Centre EcoDesign
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Strategies for bioremediation of atrazine, a pesticide commonly polluting groundwater in low concentrations, were studied in two boreal nonagricultural soils. Atrazine was not mineralized in soil without bioremediation treatments. In biostimulation treatment with molasses, up to 52 % of atrazine was mineralized at 10 A degrees C, even though the degradation gene copy numbers did not increase. Incubations with radioactively labeled atrazine followed by microautoradiographic analysis revealed that bioremediation strategies increased the relative proportion of active degraders from 0.3 up to 1.9 % of the total bacterial count. These results indicate that atrazine degradation might not solely be facilitated by atzA/trzN-atzB genes. In combined biostimulation treatment using citrate or molasses and augmentation with Pseudomonas citronellolis ADP or Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1, up to 76 % of atrazine was mineralized at 30 A degrees C, and the atrazine degradation gene numbers increased up to 10(7) copies g(-1) soil. Clone libraries from passive samplers in groundwater monitoring wells revealed the presence of phylogenetic groups formerly shown to include atrazine degraders, and the presence of atrazine degradation genes atzA and atzB. These results show that the mineralization of low concentrations of atrazine in the groundwater zone at low temperatures is possible by bioremediation treatments.
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