SIGNIFICANT BIOGENESIS OF CHLORINATED AROMATICS BY FUNGI IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Authors
DEJONG E FIELD JA SPINNLER HE WIJNBERG JBPA DEBONT JAM
Citation
E. Dejong et al., SIGNIFICANT BIOGENESIS OF CHLORINATED AROMATICS BY FUNGI IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS, Applied and environmental microbiology, 60(1), 1994, pp. 264-270
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
60
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
264 - 270
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1994)60:1<264:SBOCAB>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Common wood- and forest litter-degrading fungi produce chlorinated ani syl metabolites. These compounds, which are structurally related to xe nobiotic chloroaromatics, occur at high concentrations of approximatel y 75 mg of chlorinated anisyl metabolites kg of wood-1 or litter-1 in the environment. The widespread ability among common fungi to produce large amounts of chlorinated aromatic compounds in the environment mak es us conclude that these kinds of compounds can no longer be consider ed to originate mainly from anthropogenic sources.