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A commercial wettable-powder formulation (50% a. i.) of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) was applied to unplanted and planted (to rice) soils under flooded and non-flooded conditions at 1 kg a. i. ha−1 at 15-day intervals. A mineral salts medium supplemented with γ-HCH as a sole source of C was inoculated with suspensions from HCH-treated and untreated soils (unplanted or planted to rice) and incubated under aerobic conditions. γ-HCH disappeared completely within 10 days from the aerobically incubated medium inoculated with the suspension from the treated soil compared to less than 30% loss from the uninoculated medium or from the medium inoculated with the suspension from the untreated soil, during the corresponding period. Soil samples from HCH-treated flooded pots lost their capacity for accelerated degradation of γ-HCH after autoclaving. The addition of HCH clearly stimulated aerobic degradation of γ-HCH, even in predominantly anaerobic flooded soil. The factor responsible for the accelerated degradation of γ-HCH in pretreated soil was not detected in the deeper layers (>10 cm) of flooded soil and in fields that had dried following the rice harvest.
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Bhuyan, S., Sahu, S.K., Adhya, T.K. et al. Accelerated aerobic degradation of γ-hexachlorocyclohexane in suspensions of flooded and non-flooded soils pretreated with hexachlorocyclohexane. Biol Fertil Soils 12, 279–284 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00336044
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