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Environmental Photochemistry of Herbicides

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 103))

Abstract

Herbicides are commonly used as preplant or preemergence and post-emergence for controlling several weeds in most major agricultural crops throughout the World (Worthing and Walker 1983). When utilized in agriculture they are likely to enter into various compartments of the environment. They may undergo leaching by water, volatilization into the atmosphere, sorption to various surfaces, and partitioning into organic films. Their environmental behavior in each of these compartments is of prime importance in the successful prediction of their fate. The environmental picture becomes even more complex by taking into account the varying conditions existing within each compartment. Moilanen et al. (1979) listed several of the most important variables encountered within each environmental compartment (Table 1).

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Marcheterre, L., Choudhry, G.G., Webster, G.R.B. (1988). Environmental Photochemistry of Herbicides. In: Ware, G.W. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 103. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3850-8_2

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