Table 1.
Soil characterization.
Fig 1.
Experimental set-up for the study of metsulfuron-methyl degradation in soil.
Table 2.
Bacterial counts in the non-sterile soil samples.
Fig 2.
Distribution and recovery of radioactivity in the non-sterile soil system treated with 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl.
Fig 3.
Distribution and recovery of radioactivity in the sterile soil system after treatment with14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl.
Fig 4.
Dissipation of 14C triazine metsulfuron-methyl in soil over time.
Table 3.
Degradation of 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl in Bernam Series Soil—First-order Model.
Table 4.
Degradation of 14C-phenyl metsulfuron-methyl in the Bernam Series soil samples in the non-sterile system.
Table 5.
Degradation of 14C-phenyl metsulfuron-methyl in the Bernam Series soil samples in the sterile system.
Fig 5.
14C-radiochromatogram of 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl in the non-sterile system (on day 0).
Fig 6.
14C-radiochromatogram of 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl on day 0 samples in the sterile system.
Fig 7.
14C-radiochromatogram of 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl in the non-sterile system (in day 30).
Fig 8.
14C-radiochromatogram of 14C-triazine metsulfuron-methyl samples in the sterile test system (day 30).
Fig 9.
Proposed metabolic pathways of metsulfuron-methyl in Bernam Series.