Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a capacidade de degradação do herbicida diclosulam por bactérias. Essas bactérias foram isoladas de solos procedentes de três importantes regiões de cultivo de soja do Brasil, as quais receberam a aplicação do herbicida diclosulam. Os testes foram conduzidos em shaker, sendo utilizado um meio de cultivo sintético. As características avaliadas foram: massa de glicose e diclosulam consumidos, velocidade de degradação do diclosulam e massa celular produzida. Embora todas elas tenham sido capazes de utilizar o diclosulam, os resultados indicaram que Klebsiella sp. foi mais eficiente e promissora para ser utilizada na biorremediação de áreas contaminadas com esse composto.

This work aimed to evaluate diclosulam degradation by ten bacteria strains isolated from soils collected from three important soybean cultivation regions in Brazil. The tests were conducted in a shaker using a synthetic medium. The evaluated parameters were: glucose mass and diclosulam consumed, diclosulam degradation rate, and cell mass produced. Although all the 10 bacteria strains could use diclosulam, the results showed that the bacterium strain Klebsiella sp. was the most efficient and promising for bioremediation of diclosulam-contaminated areas.

The purpose of this work was to develop a continuous fermentation system operating with a tower reactor using some flocculent yeast strains isolated from an industrial process. The strain was an used in the trial of the proposed system, composed of two serial glass tower reactor. The effects of the following variables were studied on the yield and productivity of the system: total reducing sugar (TRS), concentration in feeding, recycle flow in the second reactor, residence time and diameter/height ratio of the reactors. It was observed that the TRS concentration in feeding and residence time is the variables that interfere most with the productivity of the system. Yield was not affected by any of the variables within the range of values studied. All trials were performed according to a factorial experimental design (making up a total of 19 trials) and the results were evaluated by response surface.