Atrazine dissipation in s-triazine-adapted and nonadapted soil from Colorado and Mississippi: Implications of enhanced degradation on atrazine fate and transport parameters

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 848-857

  Krutz, L Jason ^a   Shaner, Dale L ^b   Accinelli, Cesare ^c   Zablotowicz, Robert M ^a   Henry, W Brien ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; SOILS;

ADAPTED SOILS; ATRAZINE DISSIPATION; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; TRIAZINE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CATABOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORN; DEALKYLATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HALF LIFE TIME; METABOLITE; MOISTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UNITED STATES;

ATRAZINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLORADO; DNA PRIMERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MISSISSIPPI; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 43749121674     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0448     Document Type: Article

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