Prokaryote pesticide metabolism

This review will focus on similarities and differences of pesticide metabolism by plants and prokaryotic organisms. Examples of pesticide biotransformations will be used to illustrate how these metabolic processes can affect efficacy, environmental fate, and persistence. 

Physiological Processes in Plants and Prokaryotes and Potential for Pesticide Metabolism... 

There are some similarities regarding the enzymatic basis for metabolism of certain pesticides in plants and prokaryotic organisms. However, as outlined in Table I, there are fundamental differences between higher plants and prokaryotes that determine the potential for degradative processes among these broad divisions of organisms. 

Many of the metabolic transformations for pesticide detoxification that occur in plants are also found in prokaryotes, especially co-metabolic transformations. Glutathione conjugation of the chloroacteamide herbicides is observed in many species of gram negative bacteria including Pseudomonas sp and various members of the Enterobacteriaceae (57). Most of the degradative steps for FE metabolism in plants (de-esterification to F, and subsequent... 

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