Integrating soil conservation practices and glyphosate-resistant crops: Impacts on soil

Pest Management Science

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 457-469

  Locke, Martin A ^a   Zablotowicz, Robert M ^b   Reddy, Krishna N ^b  

^a USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer; Conservation tillage; Cover crop; Environment; Glyphosate; Leach; No tillage; Pesticide; Pesticide degradation; Reduced tillage; Runoff; Sorption; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLYPHOSATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COTTON; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GLYCINE; GOSSYPIUM; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HERBICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 41349118029     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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