From rdobert@NALUSDA.GOV Thu Mar 3 12:43:33 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:06:31 -0500 From: Ray Dobert Reply to: Agriculture Discussion To: Multiple recipients of list AGRIC-L Subject: Bioremediation (fwd) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:12:19 -0600 (CST) From: Bart Hall_Beyer To: sanet-mg@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Bioremediation Is anyone aware of a list or discussion group dealing with "bioremediation" of agricultural lands ? Bioremediation includes such things as the use of specific microbes to degrade pesticide residues. If there is no list or group, do any of you know of researchers and others working in that field ? Thanks, Bart Hall-Beyer ):* Fayetteville, Ark. From barth@ncatfyv.uark.edu Thu Mar 3 12:44:00 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:12:19 -0600 (CST) From: Bart Hall_Beyer To: sanet-mg@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Bioremediation Is anyone aware of a list or discussion group dealing with "bioremediation" of agricultural lands ? Bioremediation includes such things as the use of specific microbes to degrade pesticide residues. If there is no list or group, do any of you know of researchers and others working in that field ? Thanks, Bart Hall-Beyer ):* Fayetteville, Ark. From PATH4@TIFTON.BITNET Thu Mar 3 12:44:48 1994 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:27:42 EST From: RON GITAITIS Reply to: Agriculture Discussion To: Multiple recipients of list AGRIC-L Subject: Bart Hall-Beyer On Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:06:31 -0500 Ray Dobert said: >Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:12:19 -0600 (CST) >From: Bart Hall_Beyer > > >If there is no list or group, do any of you know of researchers and >others working in that field ? > >Bart Hall-Beyer ):* >Fayetteville, Ark. Here are a few names to begin your quest. I do not know how many of these people are still at the locations listed, as I am taking them off of references that are 1-10 yrs old. D.K. Chatterjee, J.J. Kilbane, and A.M. Chakrabarty Univ. Illinois Dept. of Microbiology Frank Higson and Dennis Focht Univ. of Calif. @Riverside Dept of Soil and Environm. Sci. O.A. Ogunseitan, I.L. Delgado, Y.-L. Tsai and B.H. Olson Univ. of Calif Irvine Environ. Analysis & Design Program in Social Ecology S.-Y. Liu, Z. Zheng, R. Zhang, and J.-M. Bollag Penn State Univ Dept. of Agronomy Lab of Soil Biochemistry Martin Alexander Dept. of Agronomy/ Lab of Soil Microbiology Cornell University Nikolaus Amrhein Institut fur Pflanzenwissenschaften / Biochemie und Physiologie der Pflanzen, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5 Ch-8092 Zurich, Switzerland S. E. Maloney Division of Biotechnology, Public Health Laboratory Service Centre for Applied Microbiology & Research Porton Down / Salisbury / Wiltshire / SP4 0JG / UNITED KINGDOM Walter Mulbry and Jeffry Karns USDA Pesticide Degradation Laboratory ARS / USDA Beltsville MD 20705 Allan Konopka Dept. of Biological Sciences / Purdue University From K.Canning@geog.utas.edu.au Thu Mar 3 12:46:10 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 11:32:35 +1000 From: Kathy Canning Reply to: Agriculture Discussion To: Multiple recipients of list AGRIC-L Subject: Re: Bioremediation (fwd) >Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:12:19 -0600 (CST) >From: Bart Hall_Beyer >To: sanet-mg@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu >Subject: Bioremediation > >Is anyone aware of a list or discussion group dealing with >"bioremediation" of agricultural lands ? >If there is no list or group, do any of you know of researchers and >others working in that field Try these contacts: Marion Grinter &/or John Wickens at Bio-region Computer Mapping & Research 3 Le Hunte St, ACT 2600 Australia ph & fx (06 282 5808; Email biomap@peg or try Tania Stadler (she is away for a week) Tania.Stadler@geog.utas.edu.au regards Kathy > From SUMNERME@uga.cc.uga.edu Thu Mar 3 12:47:52 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 08:16:54 EST From: "Malcolm E. Sumner" Reply to: Agriculture Discussion To: Multiple recipients of list AGRIC-L Subject: Re: Bioremediation (fwd) Dear Dr Dobert Dr Domy Adriano and myself are starting a project on the bioremed iation of steel flue dust contaminated soil (heavy metals) using a combination of crops and soil treatments. Regards Malcolm Sumner From barth@ncatfyv.uark.edu Thu Mar 3 12:49:39 1994 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 09:49:24 -0600 (CST) From: Bart Hall_Beyer To: sanet-mg@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Pesticide accumulation Colleagues - One of the interesting challenges faced by organic agriculture is the occasional dilemma arising when pesticide residues (usually chlorinated hydrocarbons, CHCs) show up in an organically grown product. I have a general request and a specific request. The general request is for information and citations concerning which crops (particularly horticultural crops) are known bioaccumulators of pesticides and/or heavy metals. The specific request is for ideas. I know of several occurrences in which squashes and pumpkins have shown significant dieldrin residues while the soils in which they were grown did not. The tantalizing curiosity is that while the soils *did* contain CHC residues (mainly DDT/DDE -- the ratio showed it was old stuff), the squashes and pumpkins *didn't* accumulate much of anything except the dieldrin. Any ideas?? These crops were grown *after* dieldrin was withdrawn in 1991 (?). Anybody know to what extent dieldrin was used as a stable spray ?? Most folks I know use a good dollop of manure for their cucurbit hills, and if the product was used in stables *that* might be one way for it to end up in the squash but not show up in the soil. This one's a real head-scratcher for me, and any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Whilst I'm feeling appreciative, thanks to Larry London et al. who have so far sent me some good stuff on bioremediation. Regards, Bart Hall-Beyer, ):* Fayetteville, Arkansas From SIMONS@mbrsbr.agr.ca Thu Mar 3 12:56:52 1994 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:40:54 -0500 From: Richard Simons Reply to: Agriculture Discussion To: Multiple recipients of list AGRIC-L Subject: Bioremediation A few more names of possible contacts : A.D. (Tony) Bradshaw of the University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK, has worked on heavy metal tolerance in grasses and revegetation of polluted sites. He has also worked with revegetation of colliery spoil heaps and, I believe, of heaps of slate waste. J.E. Winch, recently retired from Crop Sci. Dept., U. of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 (ph (519) 824-4120) has been involved with revegetation of mine tailings in northern areas of Canada. Over the past 20-30 years, the city of Swansea, Wales, has made an impressive job of dealing with heavily-polluted areas, and probably has built up considerable expertise. I hope these suggestions are useful. Richard Simons, Agric. Canada, Brandon, Manitoba