Authors: D G Karpouzas G Tsiamis M Trevisan F Ferrari C Malandain O Sibourg F MartinLaurent
Publish Date: 2016/07/28
Volume: 23, Issue: 18, Pages: 18947-18951
Abstract
Pesticides end up in soil where they interact with soil microorganisms in various ways On the Yin Side of the interaction pesticides could exert toxicity on soil microorganisms while on the Yang side of interaction pesticides could be used as energy source by a fraction of the soil microbial community The LOVE TO HATE project is an IAPP Marie Curie project which aims to study these complex interactions of pesticides with soil microorganisms and provide novel tools which will be useful both for pesticide regulatory purposes and agricultural use On the Yin side of the interactions a new regulatory scheme for assessing the soil microbial toxicity of pesticides will be proposed based on the use of advanced standardized tools and a welldefined experimental tiered scheme On the Yang side of the interactions advanced molecular tools like amplicon sequencing and functional metagenomics will be applied to define microbes that are involved in the rapid transformation of pesticides in soils and isolate novel pesticide biocatalysts In addition a functional microarray has been designed to estimate the biodegradation genetic potential of the microbial community of agricultural soils for a range of pesticide groupsThis work was supported by the FP7PEOPLE2012IAPP IndustryAcademia Partnerships and Pathways MarieCurie project “LovetoHate Pesticides Felicity or curse for the soil microbial community” which was funded by the European Commission Grant Agreement No 324349
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