The capacity of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) to degrade atrazine in a phytoremediation setting

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 715-722

  Murphy, Ian J ^a   Coats, Joel R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Degradation; Herbicide; Metabolism; Phytoremediation

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINES; DRINKING WATER; IN-VIVO; LEAF BIOMASS; NATIVE PRAIRIE GRASS; NON-POINT SOURCE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT TISSUES; SWITCHGRASS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; DEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXTRACTS; POTABLE WATER; SAND; SOILS; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRASS; METABOLITE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PHYTOMASS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; RHIZOSPHERE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DETOXIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MILLET; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HERBICIDES; PANICUM; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 79551597035     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.437     Document Type: Article

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