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Degradation of the insecticide Parathion in four types of soil from the Northeast of Brazil has been studied using radiometric techniques. In all the soil samples, sterilized or not, metabolites were detected with Rf values of 0.00 and 0.17 respectively--Silica Gel 60 F254 tlc plates (Merck); solvent system: hexane-acetone (4:1, v/v)--. However, 14CO2 was formed only with the non-sterilized soils and this was independent of the use or not of organic fertilizer. These results suggest that the two metabolites, mentioned above, are formed by a predominantly non-biological pathway, where as the formation of carbon dioxide requires the participation of the microbial flora of the soil. Analysis of the interaction of 14C-Parathion with soils shows that the extent of degradation of this insecticide is modified by adsorption on the soil particles.
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