Comparative environmental impacts of glyphosate and conventional herbicides when used with glyphosate-tolerant and non-tolerant crops

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3172-3178

  Mamy, Laure ^a,b   Gabrielle, Benoît ^a   Barriuso, Enrique ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Impact; Metabolite; PRZM; USES

Indexed keywords

AMINO-METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; EXPOSURE MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIELD TRIAL; GLYPHOSATES; HERBICIDE APPLICATION; IMPACT; MAIZE MONOCULTURES; OIL SEED RAPE; PRZM; TOXICITY POTENTIAL; USES;

ACIDS; BIOMOLECULES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; SOILS; TOXICITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

AMINOMETHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; GLYPHOSATE; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDE;

CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; METABOLITE; MONOCULTURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; TOXICITY;

AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRANCE; HERBICIDE TOLERANCE; MAIZE; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; RAPESEED; SIMULATION; SOIL; SUGAR BEET; TOXICITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BRASSICA NAPUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77958157493     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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