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The metabolism of herbicides by plants and soils

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Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RERERU,volume 3))

Abstract

The importance of the ability of organisms to metabolize exogenous chemicals is gaining increasing recognition. It is now demonstrated that such metabolism is of fundamental significance not only in the mode of action of such chemicals, the plants resistance to effect of applied chemicals but also determines the amount of such chemical that may be left on crops harvested for human utilization (Freed et al. 1961). In addition, the wide scale of utilization of chemicals as pesticides, and the wholesale discharge of organic chemicals such as detergents or effluents from manufacturing plants into the atmosphere or water results in wide scale contamination of man’s environment. Metabolism of these contaminants by plants and micro-organisms of the soil provides a means of reducing the level of exposure to man. For the foregoing reasons, then, an understanding of the metabolism of such chemicals by plant and soil takes on a greater importance.

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Freed, V.H., Montgomery, M.L. (1963). The metabolism of herbicides by plants and soils. In: Gunther, F.A. (eds) Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8377-6_1

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