Previous Studies on degradation of roundup shows that roundup (glyphosate) is degraded in soil by bacteria which can use glyphosate as the sole nitrogen source.
N-methyla minomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) has been detected in some soils as the only significant metabolite (Lerbs, 1990).
Complete degradation goes through glycine and sarcosine with an oxidation of the phosphonate to phosphate (Figure 13) (Kishore and Jacob, 1987).
Some Alcaligenes spp stop with phosphate and sacrosine, using only the phosphorus and not the carbon if other carbon sources available.