Fragoeiro
and Magan (2005) demonstrated thatP. chrysosporium
and T. versicolor were able to rapidly degrade a
mixture of simazine, dieldrin and trifluralin under
osmotic stress. In a similar study, Jauregui et al. (2003)
showed that P. ostreatus was amongst the most
efficient WRF in the degradation of organophosphorus
pesticides. In several of the above studies, the direct
involvement of the LME system in the degradation of
the pesticides was shown (Fratila-Apachitei et al.1999;
Castillo et al. 2001). On the contrary, several studies
with WRF have suggested that enzymes other than
LMEs were responsible for the degradation of pesti-cides.