Degradation of yew, ragwort and rhododendron toxins during composting

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4128-4137

  Hough, Rupert L ^a   Crews, Colin ^b   White, Duncan ^a   Driffield, Malcolm ^b   Campbell, Colin D ^a   Maltin, Charlotte ^c  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c Quality Meat Scotland   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rhododendron ponticum; Senecio jacobaea; Source segregated compost; Taxus baccata; Time of flight mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING PROCESS; GREEN WASTE COMPOST; MICROPOROUS; PILOT SCALE; PLANT SAMPLES; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; TAXUS BACCATA; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGRICULTURE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; POSITION CONTROL; TOXIC MATERIALS; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING;

GRAYANOTOXIN; PLANT TOXIN; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; TAXINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKALOID; ANGIOSPERM; COMPOSTING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DRY WEIGHT; GRAZING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAQWORT; RHODODENDRON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; YEW;

ALKALOIDS; DITERPENES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; RHODODENDRON; SENECIO; TAXOIDS; TAXUS; TEMPERATURE; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PONTICUM; SENECIO JACOBAEA; TAXUS; TAXUS BACCATA;

EID: 77954624720     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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