Abstract
Atrazine, an herbicide widely used to control weeds, is a potential contaminant of soil, groundwater, rivers, lakes and oceans, and has as main degradation pathway a biological pathway. The strain Pseudomonas sp. ADP is a bacterium of the reference atrazine mineralization process in contaminated environments because it has a plasmid called PADP -1, which contains the atza, atzB, atzC, atz…