Environmental Chemistry of Herbicides / Edition 1

by Raj Grover, Allan Cessna

Overview

This publication is rare among those texts on pesticides in that it covers herbicides exclusively. It presents, in one source, information that is typically scattered. This important publication enables the reader to recommend herbicide use more reliably and efficiently. It also highlights environmental issues relevant to herbicide use in agriculture. The book outlines potential areas of further research. This title is of particular value to weed scientists, environmental chemists and engineers, soil scientists, and those responsible for recommending and/or regulating use of herbicides in agriculture.

Focuses On:

? Increasing efficiency of herbicides in agriculture
? Decreasing environmental contamination with herbicides
? Dissipation and transformations in water and sediment
? Nature, transport, and fate of airborne residues
? Absorption and transport in plants
? Transformations in biosphere
? Bioaccumulation and food chain accumulation
? Photochemical transformations
? Bound residues
? Predictability and environmental chemistry

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849343773
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/1990
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Dissipation and Transformations in Water and Sediment. Nature, Transport, and Fate of Airborne Residues. Absorption and Transport in Plants. Biotransformations of Herbicides in Higher Plants. Bioaccumulation and Food Chain Accumulation. Photochemical Transformations. Bound Residues. Predictability and Environmental Chemistry. 81 illustrations,

Editorial Reviews

Considers the physicochemical principles controlling the behavior of herbicides in water, air, and biological components of agroecosystems, with additional chapters on bioaccumulation, photochemical transformations, bound residues, and predictability in environmental chemistry. The discussions include critical accounts of techniques associated with the study of the subject matter at hand, and summaries of information and tabulations of data for each herbicide class or group. Volume one covered the effect of herbicides on the solid components of the environment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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