title: Enhanced microbial degradation of cadusafos in soils from potato monoculture: demonstration and characterization.
abstract: Rapid degradation of cadusafos was evident in soils collected from previously-treated field sites from a potato monoculture area in northern Greece. The slower degradation of cadusafos observed in corresponding antibiotic-treated soils as well as in soils from an adjacent previously-untreated field demonstrated the microbial involvement in the rapid degradation of cadusafos in the soils from the previously-treated sites. Application of the non-specific antibacterial antibiotic chloramphenicol or of the Gram+ bacteria-inhibiting antibiotics penicillin + lyncomycin + vancomycin significantly inhibited the rapid biodegradation of cadusafos suggesting that soil bacteria and probably Gram+ bacteria are mainly responsible for the rapid biodegradation of cadusafos in the specific soil. Further experiments showed that the bacterial population of the cadusafos-adapted soil was also able to rapidly degrade the chemically related nematicide ethoprophos but not fenamiphos and oxamyl. This is the first report of the occurrence of enhanced biodegradation of cadusafos in potato fields. In addition, the finding of cross-enhancement between cadusafos and ethoprophos significantly reduces the number of available chemicals which could be alternated to prevent the development of enhanced biodegradation and thus intensifies the problem in potato monoculture areas like the one in northern Greece.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pesticide Science, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 1678, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece. dkarpouz@agro.auth.gr
authors.forename: Dimitrios G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Karpouzas
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karanasios
authors.forename: Urania
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Menkissoglu-Spiroudi
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000378:metabolism*; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental / Q000187:drug effects; D002219:Carbamates / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D002701:Chloramphenicol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006115:Greece; D009348:Nematoda; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D063086:Organothiophosphates; D009946:Organothiophosphorus Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D010406:Penicillins / Q000494:pharmacology; D010571:Pest Control / Q000379:methods*; D010575:Pesticides / Q000378:metabolism*; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D011198:Solanum tuberosum; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D002219:Carbamates; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D063086:Organothiophosphates; D009946:Organothiophosphorus Compounds; D010406:Penicillins; D010575:Pesticides; C001182:ethoprop; D002701:Chloramphenicol; D014640:Vancomycin; C491566:cadusafos; C002698:fenamiphos; C011960:oxamyl