Iprodione degradation by isolated soil microorganisms

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0168-6496(97)00024-X

Three bacterial strains were isolated from soils adapted to iprodione and identified as Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas sp. and Pseudomonas paucimobilis. The first two strains transformed iprodione to N-(3,5- dichlorophenyl)-2,4-dioxoimidazo-lidine (II) and under restrictive conditions to 3,5-dichlorophenylurea acetic acid (III); the latter subsequently degraded II to III and III to 3,5-dichloroaniline (3,5-D). We constructed bacterial combinations consisting of Pseudomonas paucimobilis plus one of the iprodione degraders and showed that these combinations transformed iprodione into 3,5- D. It is known that 3,5-D was the major metabolite found in adapted soils, suggesting that such a bacterial combination might be responsible for degrading iprodione into 3,5-D in adapted soils. Plasmids could only be isolated in Pseudomonas fluorescens but we did not investigate if one of these was involved in the ability to degrade iprodione.