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Responsable: Eduardo Santero Santurino
Tipo de Proyecto/Ayuda: 5º Programa Marco de la U.E.
Referencia: QLK3-CT-1999-00041
Web: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/51665_en.html
Fecha de Inicio: 01-01-2000
Fecha de Finalización: 31-12-2002

Empresa/Organismo financiador/es:

• Commission of the European Communities (Research Directorate-General)

Socios:

• Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmBH (Hermann J. Heipieper)
• University of Kent at Canterbury (Richard G. Burns)
• Bauer und Mourik Umwelttechnik GmBH & Co (Johann Mesch)
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Victor de Lorenzo)
• Consorzio Mario Negri Sud-Centro di Ricerche Armacologiche e Biomediche (Domenico Rotilio)
• Aristotle University of Thessalonikis (Euphemia Papadopoulou-Mourkidou)
• Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Diamantino Durao)

Equipo:

• Contratados:
  • Ángel Cebolla Ramírez

Becarios:

• Nombramiento de Becario:
  • Fernando Govantes Romero

Resumen del proyecto:

The project is focussed on the biodegradtion of persistent herbicides belonging to the groups of triazines, amides and chlorophenoxyalkanes under natural stress conditions present in every polluted site. Both, the physiology of adaptive responses and the regulation of catabolic genes under different stress conditions will be investigated. For herbicides with a low solubility, attempts to increase their bio availability will be made by promoting bio surfactant activity of microbial consortia. Additionally, the project will focus on toxicological investigations of herbicides and their metabolites using amphibian and insect cell tissues, and toxicity assessments developed for Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an eukaryotic model organism. The project will develop techniques, which will allow an increased use of biological methods to remediate sites contaminated with herbicides and other xenobiotics.