Biodegradation of the herbicide mecoprop-p with soil depth and its relationship with class III tfdA genes

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-39

  Rodríguez Cruz, Ma Sonia ^a   Bælum, Jacob ^b   Shaw, Liz J ^c   Sørensen, Sebastian R ^b   Shi, Shengjing ^a   Aspray, Thomas ^a   Jacobsen, Carsten S ^b,d   Bending, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Diversity; Mecoprop p; Quantitative PCR; Soil depth; tfdA

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; MECOPROP-P; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SOIL DEPTH; TFDA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; HERBICIDES; LEACHING; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; WEED CONTROL;

DEGRADATION;

BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HERBICIDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL DEPTH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70449533738     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.09.018     Document Type: Article

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