The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Biodegradation of Chemicals of Environmental Concern
Abstract
Microorganisms in soils and waters convert many synthetic organic chemicals to inorganic products. Other compounds are transformed only by cometabolism. These microbial processes may lead to environmental detoxication, the formation of new toxicants, or the biosynthesis of persistent products. Type reactions are proposed for major categories of enzymatic transformation of synthetic chemicals in soils, natural waters, and sewage. Some organic molecules are resistant to microbial attack, and explanations for the persistence of such compounds are suggested.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Metabolism and degradation of glyphosate in soil and water
Rueppel, M. L., Brightwell, B. B., Schaefer, J., & Marvel, J. T. (1977) · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · doi:10.1021/jf60211a018 · Cited by 456
Cited by
Beta toxin catalyzes formation of nucleoprotein matrix in staphylococcal biofilms
Huseby, M. J., Kruse, A. C., Digre, J., Kohler, P. L., Vocke, J. A., Mann, E. E., Bayles, K. W., Bohach, G. A., Schlievert, P. M., Ohlendorf, D. H., et al. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0911032107 · Cited by 199
Deroiné, M., César, G., Le Duigou, A., Davies, P., & Bruzaud, S. (2015) · Journal of Polymers and the Environment · doi:10.1007/s10924-015-0736-5 · Cited by 126
Munir, E., Harefa, R. S. M., Priyani, N., & Suryanto, D. (2018) · IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science · doi:10.1088/1755-1315/126/1/012145 · Cited by 126
Fate of trace organic compounds during vadose zone soil treatment in an onsite wastewater system
Conn, K. E., Siegrist, R. L., Barber, L. B., & Meyer, M. T. (2009) · Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry · doi:10.1002/etc.40 · Cited by 63
Rodgers, R. P., Blumer, E. N., Emmett, M. R., & Marshall, A. G. (2000) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/es990889n · Cited by 28
Metadata
- Authors
- Alexander, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1981-01-09
- Volume
- 211
- Issue
- 4478
- Pages
- 132-138
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2063766415
- Cited by
- 684
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 33.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Biodegradation of Chemicals of Environmental Concern. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.7444456
- The paper
- Alexander, M. (1981). Biodegradation of Chemicals of Environmental Concern. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7444456
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
