Insecticide-Degrading Burkholderia Symbionts of the Stinkbug Naturally Occupy Various Environments of Sugarcane Fields in a Southeast Island of Japan

The stinkbug Cavelerius saccharivorus, which harbors Burkholderia species capable of degrading the organophosphorus insecticide, fenitrothion, has been identified on a Japanese island in farmers’ sugarcane fields that have been exposed to fenitrothion. A clearer understanding of the ecology of the s...

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Main Authors: Tago, Kanako, Okubo, Takashi, Itoh, Hideomi, Kikuchi, Yoshitomo, Hori, Tomoyuki, Sato, Yuya, Nagayama, Atsushi, Hayashi, Kentaro, Ikeda, Seishi, Hayatsu, Masahito
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME)/The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology (JSSM) 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356461/