Degradation by adaption

A well-known postulate says that under the right condition there will always be one or more microorganisms that are able to degrade any organic compound. But, unlike an animal, a single microorganism does not have enzymes that are specialized in degrading lipophilic secondary metabolites of plants 

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Enhanced biodegradation Is the accelerated rate of pesticide degradation, by adapted soli microorganisms, observed In soil following previous application of It or a similar pesticide. Enhanced degradation may result In pest control failure and crop yield reduction."... 

EC50 for activated sludge organisms Complete degradation by adapted bacteria. 

Fig. 5 TPs of sulfapyridine after degradation by T. versicolor (adapted from Rodriguez-Rodriguez et al. [24])...

Fig. 10 Identified metabolites from iopromide degradation by T. versicolor and proposed degradation scheme (adapted from Rode and Miiller [63])...

Secondary treatments are accomplished either by an activated sludge process or a trickling filter, in which organic components of the wastewater are subjected to aerobic degradation by microbial biocoe-nosis [52]. Surfactants can be metabolised by adapted micro-organisms... 

Figure 11. Molecular weight distributions of middle molecular weight phenolic (solid line) and acidic (broken line) fractions from methanol extract, and higher molecular weight acidic (dotted line) fraction from subsequent aqueous 96% dioxane ract, of spruce wood chips degraded by P, ckrysosporium to 20% loss in lignin content Sephadex LH60A).10 M LiQ-DMF profiles adapted and redrawn from reference 67.

Lim et al., 1978] Lim, J., Oppenheim, A., and Braida, L. (1978). Evaluation of an adaptive comb filtering method for enhancing speech degraded by white noise... 

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