Understanding pesticide metabolism in plants and microorganisms is necessary for
pesticide development, for safe and efficient use, as well as for developing pesticide …

Phytoremediation—the use of plants to clean up polluted soil and water resources—has
received much attention in the last few years. Although plants have the inherent ability to …

Herbicide safeners selectively protect crop plants from herbicide damage without reducing
activity in target weed species. This paper provides an outline of the discovery and uses of …

The use of genetically modified or native microorganisms and plants to degrade or remove
pollutants has emerged as a powerful technology for in situ remediation. An understanding …

A strategy based on the random isolation and screening of soybean cDNAs encoding
cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) was used in an attempt to identify P450 …

Abstract The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) xenobiotic inducible cytochrome
P450, CYP76B1, catalyzes rapid oxidative dealkylation of various phenylurea herbicides to …

The high plasticity of the active-site cavity of cytochromes P450, permitting reactivity toward
a vast array of compounds, makes these enzymes attractive targets for biotechnological …

We describe the isolation of four cDNA clones from 2, 4-D-treated cultured tobacco cells
encoding novel P450 species inducible by chemical treatments. RNA blot analysis showed …

Mechanisms of herbicide resistance include (1) modified target site,(2) enhanced
detoxification or delayed activation, and (3) alterations in the uptake, translocation, or …

Metabolism of 50 herbicides and 7 other chemicals with different structures and modes of
action was examined in the microsomes from the recombinant yeast strains expressing each …