Occurrence, diversity and community structure of culturable atrazine degraders in industrial and agricultural soils exposed to the herbicide in Shandong Province, P.R. China

Table 5 Recovery of Arthrobacter sp.SD41 from S1 soil by direct plating on SM agar

Inoculation density, CFU g⁻¹ soil	Recovery, CFU g⁻¹ soil^a	Percent recovery^a
No inoculation (control)	˂10²	ND
1.6 × 10²	˂10²	ND
1.6 × 10³	(6.0 ± 2.4) × 10²	37.5 ± 15.0
1.6 × 10⁴	(5.5 ± 0.7) × 10³	34.8 ± 4.8
1.6 × 10⁵	(6.3 ± 0.8) × 10⁴	39.4 ± 5.0
1.6 × 10⁶	(1.4 ± 0.1) × 10⁶	87.5 ± 6.3

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