Inorganic copper is used as a broad-spectrum fungicide and bacteriocide on a variety of agricultural crops. After application, the copper residue typically accumulates in the upper 15 cm of soil. Data from the California Pesticide Use Reports were used to estimate the augmentation of copper in the soil that resulted from pesticide applications for the six years from 1993 to 1998 on 12 crops tha...

the essential oils of the aerial parts of a. armeniaca and a. incana , collected from arasbaran area (east azarbaijan province, iran) were extracted by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gc-ms. in total, 16 and 40 constituents were identified and quantified in the oils of a. armeniaca and a. incana representing 80.5% and 84.6% of the oils, respectively. the essential oil of a. armeniaca was main...