Journal article

Publication year: 1996

Pages: 2846-2848

Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volume number: 44

Issue number: 9

ISSN: 0021-8561

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/jf960178y

Publisher: American Chemical Society

Abstract: 
Atrazine (2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine) degradation in various soils under laboratory conditions was studied. Atrazine was depleted mostly through microbial degradation in alkaline soil and was degraded in acidic soil mainly through chemical transformation or both chemical and microbial transformation. The microbial degradations of atrazine produced desethylatrazine and desisopropylatrazine as primary metabolites, while chemical degradation of atrazine yielded hydroxatrazine. Atrazine decreased 3-4 times faster in soils at 25 degrees C than at 10 degrees C.

Harvard Citation style: Qiao, X., Ma, L. and Hummel, H. (1996) Persistence of atrazine and occurrence of its primary metabolites in three soils, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 44(9), pp. 2846-2848. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf960178y

APA Citation style: Qiao, X., Ma, L., & Hummel, H. (1996). Persistence of atrazine and occurrence of its primary metabolites in three soils. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 44(9), 2846-2848. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf960178y