The aim of this work was to study the effect of the herbicides glyphosate, nonanoic acid, and dichlorprop-P and the insecticides potassium oil, malation and Pyretrin and their combinations on nitrification. Nitrification was measured in slurries from the eutrophic and shallow Brabrand Lake (Aarhus, Denmark), by inhibiting oxidation of nitrite to nitrate with chloride. All herbicides and insecti...

The phytotoxic effect of 2,4-D amine, 2,4-DIBE-butachlor; butachlor, benthiocarb and molinate on rice plants were assessed. Applications of the herbicides at different time resulted in severe phytotoxicity when applied before seeding. Early postemergent applications were also generally phytotoxic, adversely affecting plant growth and grain yield. Late applications 8 to 10 weeks after seeding we...

Diuron (see Figure 1) is an herbicide in the urea chemical family. Related herbicides include linuron and tebuthiuron.1 Diuron-containing herbicides were first registered for use in the United States in 1966 by E.I duPont de Nemours and Company2 and are currently sold by a variety of companies including Griffin L.L.C., Dow Agrosciences, and Drexel Chemical Company. Common brand names include Ka...

Among agricultural pesticides, herbicides comprise the most employed group in agriculture. The main function of these chemicals is to control weeds, weed competition reduces produc‐ tivity, without significantly impacting crop yield. Weeds tend to compete with crops by extracting essential elements from the soil, water, intercepting light and CO2, interfering in the culture development and affe...

N'-methoxy phenylurea herbicides are degraded by induced cells of Bacillus sphaericus ATCC 12123 by liberating carbon dioxide from the ureido portion of the molecule and leaving the corresponding aniline moieties. Cell-free extracts of B. sphaericus inactivate these herbicides in the same way as reported for whole cells. A 6.6-fold purification of the crude extract was achieved by a combination...

Herbicides, Plastoquinone, MO Calculation, Photosystem II Molecular orbital calculations o f the net charge and the n charge distribution in several inhibitors and herbicides o f the functionally related group o f the diuron and dinoseb type are reported. They confirm the model that urea, aminotriazinone and triazine herbicides all have in common a positive ^-charge at a particular atom conside...

Herbicides are chemical substances that are applied to agricultural soils, gardens, lawns, or plants to destroy or to prevent the growth of undesirable vegetation. The herbicides included in this review are generally synthetic organic compounds that are ingredients in commercial herbicide products that were designated active during late 2002 in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's databas...

Smallflower umbrella sedge is an increasingly problematic weed in direct-seeded rice in Arkansas. Recently, a sample collected from an Arkansas rice field was confirmed resistant to halosulfuron (Permit). Studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of various acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides on control of the resistant biotype relative to a susceptible biotype and to ...

Rhodococcus sp. strain B1 could degrade 100 mg/L butachlor within 5 days. Butachlor was first hydrolyzed by strain B1 through N-dealkylation, which resulted in the production of butoxymethanol and 2-chloro-N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)acetamide. Butoxymethanol could be further degraded and utilized as the carbon source for the growth of strain B1, whereas 2-chloro-N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)acetamide coul...