The triazine herbicides : 50 years revolutionizing agriculture /: 50 years revolutionizing agriculture. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Homer M. LeBaron, Janis E. McFarland and Orvin C. Burnside.
• Other Names: LeBaron, Homer M; McFarland, Janis E, 1956-; Burnside, Orvin
• Contents: Foreword - Dennis T. Avery; Chapter 1 - The Triazine Herbicides: A Milestone in the Development of Modern Crop Technology - Homer M. LeBaron and Janis McFarland; Chapter 2 - History of the Discovery and Development of Triazine Herbicides - Gustav Müller; Chapter 3 - Registration and Production of Triazine Herbicides - Walter Heri, Franz Pfister, Beth Carroll, Thomas Parshley, and James B. Nabors; Chapter 4 - Weed Control Trends and Practices in North America - David R. Pike, Ellery L. Knake, and Marshal D. McGlamery; Chapter 5 - Farming Trends and Practices in Northern Europe - James H. Orson; Chapter 6 - Biology and Ecology of Weeds and the Impact of Triazine Herbicides - Homer M. LeBaron and Gustav Müller; Chapter 7 - Plant Uptake and Metabolism of Triazine Herbicides - Bruce J. Simoneaux and Thomas J. Gould; Chapter 8 - The Mode of Action of Triazine Herbicides in Plants - Achim Trebst; Chapter 9 - Basis of Crop Selectivity and Weed Resistance to Triazine Herbicides - Amit Shukla and Malcolm D. Devine; Chapter 10 - Distribution and Management of Triazine-Resistant Weeds - Homer M. LeBaron; Chapter 11 - Weeds Resistant to Nontriazine Classes of Herbicides - Homer M. LeBaron and Eugene R. Hill; Chapter 12 - The Use of Economic Benefit Models in Estimating the Value of Triazine Herbicides - Gerald A. Carlson; Chapter 13 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides in Corn and Sorghum Production - David C. Bridges; Chapter 14 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides in Ecofallow - David L. Regehr and Charles A. Norwood; Chapter 15 - Weed Control in Sugarcane and the Role of Triazine Herbicides - Dudley T. Smith, Edward P. Richard, Jr., and Lance T. Santo; Chapter 16 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides and Other Weed Control Technology in Citrus Management - Megh Singh and Shiv D. Sharma; Chapter 17 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides for Weed Control in Fruit and Nut Crops - Clyde L. Elmore and Arthur H. Lange; Chapter 18 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides in the Production of Ornamentals and Conifer Trees - John F. Ahrens and Michael Newton; Chapter 19 - Benefits of Triazine Herbicides in Turf - G. Euel Coats, Steve T. Kelly, and James M. Taylor; Chapter 20 - Methods of Analysis for Triazine Herbicides and Their Metabolites - Richard A. McLaughlin, Michael V. Barringer, James F. Brady, and Robert A. Yokley; Chapter 21 - Triazine Soil Interactions - David A. Laird and William C. Koskinen; Chapter 22 - Microbial Degradation of s Triazine Herbicides - Raphi T. Mandelbaum, Michael J. Sadowsky and Lawrence P. Wackett; Chapter 23 - Nonbiological Degradation of Triazine Herbicides: Photolysis and Hydrolysis - Allan J. Cessna; Chapter 24 - Soil Movement and Persistence of Triazine Herbicides - William C. Koskinen and Philip Banks; Chapter 25 - Hazard Assessment for Selected Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Triazine Herbicides - Charles B. Breckenridge, Christoph Werner, James T. Stevens, and Darrell D. Sumner; Chapter 26 - Mode of Action of Atrazine for Mammary Tumor Formation in the Female Sprague-Dawley Rats - Lawrence T. Wetzel and J. Charles Eldridge; Chapter 27 - Dietary Exposure Assessment of the Triazine Herbicides - Leslie D. Bray, Nina Heard, Robert A. Kahrs, Arpad Z. Szarka, and Dennis S. Hackett; Chapter 28 - Probabilistic Assessment of Laboratory-Derived Acute Toxicity Data for the Triazine Herbicides to Aquatic Organisms - Keith R. Solomon and Dennis Cooper; Chapter 29 - Atrazine and Simazine Monitoring Data in Community Water Systems in the United States During 1993 to 2000 - Dennis P. Tierney, B. R. Christensen, Cheryl Dando and Kendra M. Marut; Chapter 30 - A Decade of Measuring, Monitoring, and Studying the Fate and Transport of Triazine Herbicides in Groundwater, Surface Water, Reservoirs, and Precipitation by the U.S. Geological Survey - E. Michael Thurman and Elisabeth A. Scribner; Chapter 31 - Probabilistic Risk Assessment Using Atrazine and Simazine as a Model - Robert L. Sielken, Jr., Robert S. Bretzlaff and Cirisco Valdez-Flores; Chapter 32 - Progress in Best Management Practices - John F. Hebblethwaite and Carol N. Somody; Chapter 33 - Environmental Benefits of Triazine Use in Conservation Tillage - Richard S. Fawcett; Chapter 34 - Role of Triazine Herbicides in Sustainable Agriculture: Potential of Nonchemical Weed Control Methods as Substitutes for Herbicides in United States Corn Production - Leonard P. Gianessi and Janet E. Carpenter; Chapter 35 - Environmental Stewardship: The Roots of a Family Farm - Jere White; Appendix Table 1 - Chemical structures, names and weights of triazine herbicides; Appendix Table 2 - Physical/chemical properties of triazine herbicides; Appendix Table 3 - Selected metabolites of various triazine herbicides listed by metabolic processes or by individual compound; Appendix Table 4A - Scientific and common names of weeds mentioned in this book in alphabetic order by scientific name; Appendix Table 4B - Common and scientific names of weeds mentioned in this book in alphabetic order by common name; Appendix Table 5 - Triazine herbicide use as percent crop treated in major US crops during 2002
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (600 pages)
• Subjects: 632.954; Herbicides; Triazines
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080559636; 0080559638
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