“…If we take this into consideration, it is not strange that in nature, there are effective salicylate degradation mechanisms. Many bacterial strains, like Micrococcus , Sphingomonas , Amycolatopsis , Streptomyces , Pseudomonas , Alcaligenes , Pseudoramibacter , Rhodococcus (Chakrabarty 1972 ; Shamsuzzaman and Barnsley 1974 ; Haribabu et al 1984 ; Grund et al 1990 ; Grund et al 1992 ; Civilini et al 1999 ; Hintner et al 2001 ; Ishiyama et al 2004 ; Deveryshetty et al 2007 ; Jouanneau et al 2007 ; Silva et al 2007 ; Lanfranconi et al 2009 ) and fungi, like Sclerotinia , Trichosporon , Aspergillus , Fusarium , Rhodotorula , Cryptococcus (Anderson and Dagley 1980 ; Kuswandi and Roberts 1992 ; Middelhoven 1993 ; Iwasaki et al 2009 ; Qi et al 2012 ; Penn and Daniel 2013 ) are capable of degrading salicylate (Table 2 ) via a few catabolic pathways.…”