Mullika Teerakun, Alissara Reungsang, Teeraphot Supaviriyakit, and Wanpen Wirojanagud

pp. 171 - 176

Abstract

In this study, the ability of plants to clean up carbofuran residues in rice field soil was examined.
Plants were grown in 8 inches diameter plastic pots filled with soils containing 5 mg/kg carbofuran.
Phytoremediated samples were analyzed for carbofuran concentration. The results showed that carbofuran
was rapidly degraded under planted soil and non-planted soil with half-lives ranging from 2-7 days. These
facts suggest that phytoremediation could accelerate the degradation of carbofuran residues in soil and
carbofuran was not persistent in the soil environment.