Toxicity of two carbamate insecticides to the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 and computations of partial lethal concentrations by the probit method
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1Postgraduate Department of Botany, Khallikote College, Orissa, India.
Microbios
|August 17, 2001
Abstract:
Toxicity studies of two commercial carbamate insecticides, carbaryl and carbofuran with the nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120, are described. Under nitrogen-fixing conditions and with calcium nitrate supplementation, 100 and 120 ppm carbaryl were the respective lethal concentrations (LC100), while 20 to 80 ppm (nitrogen-fixing conditions) and 20 to 100 ppm (with nitrate supplementation) were the partial lethal doses (
