Enhanced degradation and soil depth effects on the fate of atrazine and major metabolites in Colorado and Mississippi soils

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1369-1377

  Krutz, L Jason ^a   Shaner, Dale L ^a   Zablotowicz, Robert M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE MINERALIZATION; ATRAZINES; BACTERIAL POPULATION; DEISOPROPYLATRAZINE; DESETHYLATRAZINE; FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING; IN-FIELD; INPUT VALUES; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; MISSISSIPPI; S-TRIAZINES; SOIL DEPTH; SUBMODULES;

BIOMOLECULES; DEGRADATION; HERBICIDES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MINERALOGY; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; ATRAZINE; DEETHYLATRAZINE; PESTICIDE; TRIAZINE; HERBICIDE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; INCUBATION TIME; MINERALIZATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; ATRAZINE; COLORADO; HERBICIDES; MISSISSIPPI; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77955599332     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2009.0197     Document Type: Article

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