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The ability of a wide variety of soil-borne fungal strains to degrade four structurally different com pounds containing PC bonds, namely the naturally occurring amino acid ciliatine, the popular herbicide glyphosate, phosphonoacetic acid and 2-amino-3-phosphonopropionic acid, was studied in order to show that soil fungi may play an important role in the biodegradation of organophosphonates. Most of the strains appeared to utilize ciliatine as the sole source of phosphorus for growth. Only a limited number of strains were able to grow on the other phosphonates used in this work. The strains of Trichoderma harzianum, Scopulariopsis sp. and Aspergillus niger chosen for more detailed study show the ability to degrade ciliatine, glyphosate and also amino(3-methoxyphenyl)mehtylphosphonic acid effectively.
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Received: 14 May 1997 / Received revision: 10 June 1997 / Accepted: 14 June 1997
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Krzyśko-Lupicka, T., Strof, W., Kubś, K. et al. The ability of soil-borne fungi to degrade organophosphonate carbon-to-phosphorus bonds. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 48, 549–552 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051095
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051095