Herbicide risk assessment during the wheat self-sufficiency project in Iran

Pest Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1036-1045

  Deihimfard, Reza ^a   Zand, Eskandar ^b   Damghani, Abdolmajid Mahdavi ^a   Soufizadeh, Saeid ^a,c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ecological risk; EIQ indicator; Environmental impact; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HERBICIDE; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; WHEAT; YIELD;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IRAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERBICIDES; IRAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRITICUM;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34548815921     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1432     Document Type: Article

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