- Title
- Degradation of atrazine and bromacil in two forestry waste products
- Creator
- James, Trevor K.; Ghanizadeh, Hossein; Harrington, Kerry C.; Bolan, Nanthi S.
- Relation
- Scientific Reports Vol. 11, Issue 1, no. 3284
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83052-z
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- The persistence and degradation of two common herbicides, atrazine and bromacil in two organic media, wood pulp and sawdust were compared with two soils. The hypothesis tested was that herbicide degradation will be faster in high organic matter media compared to soil. Degradation of two herbicides was carried out in four different temperature regimes and in sterilised media. The degradation half-life (t½) was determined under above-mentioned conditions then compared to degradation in soil. The degradation as quantified by t½ of the herbicides was generally longer in both organic media. Although microbial degradation was an important factor in the mineralisation of these herbicides, overall, the pH of the media had a more profound effect on the desorption and subsequent degradation rate than the organic carbon content. The results of this study revealed that the hypothesis was only partially correct as organic matter content per se did not strongly relate to degradation rates which were mainly governed by pH and microbial activity.
- Subject
- atrazine; cromacil; herbicide degradation; organic carbon
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1425669
- Identifier
- uon:38292
- Identifier
- ISSN:2045-2322
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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