Table 1 Bacterial strains capable of degrading dibenzo-p-dioxin, dibenzofuran, and their chlorinated congeners

ClassAlphaproteobacteria

 Sphingomonassp. HH19k

DF

Angular

Fortnagel et al. (1989); Harms and Zehnder (1994, 1995)

 Sphingomonassp. HH69

DD, DF, Monochlorinated DDs/DFs, Dichlorinated DDs/Fs, Trichlorinated DD/Fs

Angular

Fortnagel et al. (1989, 1990); Harms et al. (1990, 1991, 1995); Schreiner et al. (1997)

 Agrobacterium sp. PH-08

DF

Lateral, Angular

Le et al. (2014)

 Sphingomonassp. RW16

DF

Angular

Wittich et al. (1999)

 Sphingomonaswittichii RW1

DD, DF, Monochlorinated DDs/DFs, Dichlorinated DDs/Fs, Trichlorinated DD/Fs, Tetra chlorinated DDs

Angular

Wittich et al. (1992), Arfmann et al. (1997),Armengaud et al. (1998, 1999, 2000) and Armengaud and Timmis (1997), Armengaud et al. (1998), Bunz and Cook (1993), Halden et al. (1999), Happe et al. (1993), Hong et al. (2002), Keim et al. (1999), Megharaj et al. (1997), Wilkes et al. (1996)

 Sphingomonassp. XLDN2-5

DF

Angular, lateral

Gai et al. (2007)

ClassBetaproteobacteria

 Burkholderiasp. LB400

DD, DF

Angular

Seeger et al. (2001), Erickson and Mondello (1992)

 Burkholderiasp. JB1

Monochlorinated DDs/DFs

Angular

Parsons et al. (1998), Parsons and Storms (1989)

 Burkholderiacepacia F297

DF

Lateral

Grifoll et al. (1995)

 Ralstoniasp. SBUG290

DF, Biphenyl

Lateral

Becher et al. (2000)

Class Gammaproteobacteria

 Pseudomonas resinovorans CA10

DD, DF

Angular

Habe et al. (2001), Maeda et al. (2003), Nam et al. (2001)

 Pseudomonas putida PH-01

DF

Angular

Hong et al. (2000)

 Pseudomonas putida G7

DF

Lateral

Cerniglia et al. (1979)

 Pseudomonas putida BS291

DF

Lateral

Selifonnov et al. (1992)

 Pseudomonas sp.ISTDF1

DF

Angular, lateral

Jaiswal et al. (2011)

 Pseudomonas aeruginosa

DF

Angular, lateral

Ali et al. (2019)

 Cycloclasticuspugetii

Pseudomonas aeruginosa FA-HZ1

DF

DF

Angular, lateral

Fuse et al. (2003), Ali et al. (2019)

Phylum Actinobacteria

 Rhodococcusopacus SAO01

DD, DF

Angular, lateral

Kimura and Urushigawa (2001)

 Rhodococcuserythropolis SBUG 271

DF, Biphenyl

Lateral

Stope et al. (2002)

 Rhodococcussp. HA01

DF, 2-CDF, 3-CDF

Angular, lateral

Aly et al. (2008)

 Rhodococcussp. p52

DF

Angular

Peng et al. (2013)

 Janibacter sp. YY1

DF

Angular, lateral

Yamazoe et al. (2004)

 Janibacter terrae XJ-1

DF

Angular, lateral

Jin et al. (2006)

 Terrabacter (Janibacter) sp. DPO360

DF

Angular

Schmidt et al. (1997)

 Terrabactersp. DBF63

DF, DD

Angular

Habe et al. (2001, 2002), Kasuga et al. (1997, 2001)

 Terrabactersp. YK3

DF

Angular

Iida et al. (2002)

Phylum Firmicutes

 Paenibacillus naphthalenovorans 4B1

DF

Angular

Thanh et al. (2019)