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- Title
Atrazine soil metabolism in maize fields treated with organic fertilizers.
- Authors
Rouchaud, J.; Gustin, F.; Callens, D.; Bulcke, R.
- Abstract
The metabolism of atrazine in soil was studied in two maize fields located in regions with different soil types. Treatments were cow manure or pig slurry (50 tonnes each ha-¹) applied once either in March or in November before sowing, or green manure incorporated in March. Control plots were not treated with organic fertilizers. Atrazine at 0.75 or 1.0 kg ai. ha-¹ was applied after sowing. In the 0–12 cm soil layer, the main atrazine metabolites found were deethylatrazine and hydroxyatrazine. Low concentrations of deisopropylatrazine and 6-chloro-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine were also observed. During the 4 months after sowing, the organic fertilizers decreased the rate of atrazine degradation, but subsequently there were no differences between treated and control plots. At harvest, the concentrations of atrazine and its metabolites were very low and similar in all plots. The organic fertilizers thus did not cause atrazine metabolites to accumulate in soil. In addition, atrazine and its metabolites were never detected below 12 cm in any of the plots.
- Subjects
ATRAZINE; HERBICIDES; SOILS; CORN; ORGANIC fertilizers; HYDROXYLATION
- Publication
Weed Research, 1996, Vol 36, Issue 2, p105
- ISSN
0043-1737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3180.1996.tb01806.x