Enhanced degradation and the comparative fate of carbamate insecticides in soil
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The Department of Entomology seeks to teach the study of insects, their life-cycles, and the practicalities in dealing with them, for use in the fields of business, industry, education, and public health. The study of entomology can be applied towards evolution and ecological sciences, and insects’ relationships with other organisms & humans, or towards an agricultural or horticultural focus, focusing more on pest-control and management.
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The Department of Entomology was founded in 1975 as a result of the division of the Department of Zoology and Entomology.
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- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (parent college)
- Department of Zoology and Entomology (predecessor, 1975)
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Laboratory experiments investigated the comparative degradation of five carbamate insecticides in soil as affected by enhanced microbial degradation. Soils with prior field exposure to carbofuran, cloethocarb, or several carbamates contained adapted microbial populations capable of rapidly degrading carbofuran. Bendiocarb was rapidly degraded in all soils displaying enhanced carbofuran degradation, but carbaryl and cloethocarb were most rapidly degraded only in soil with prior exposure to several carbamates or to cloethocarb. The persistence of aldicarb and its oxidative metabolites aldicarb sulfoxide and aldicarb sulfone was not dramatically altered in soils with enhanced carbofuran degradation. Results indicate that although cross-adaptations for enhanced degradation exist within the carbamate insecticide class, structural similarity may play a role in modifying the expression of enhanced degradation in soil.
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Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 36(5); 1067-1072. Doi: 10.1021/jf00083a039. 1988 American Chemical Society.