Browsing School of Pure and Applied Sciences by Subject "Atrazine"

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Atrazine and terbuthylazine mineralization by an Arthrobacter sp. isolated from a sugarcane-cultivated soil in Kenya

Getenga, Zachary; Dörﬂer, Ulrike; Iwobi, Azuka; Schmid, Michael; Schroll, Reiner (Chemosphere, 2009)

A tropical soil from a Kenyan sugarcane-cultivated ﬁeld showed a very high capability to mineralize 14C-ring-labeled atrazine. In laboratory experiments this soil mineralized about 90% of the applied atrazinewithin98 ...
Biodegradation of s-triazine herbicide atrazine by Enterobacter cloacae and Burkholderia cepacia sp. from long-term treated sugarcane-cultivated soils in Kenya

Ngigi, Anastasiah N.; Getenga, Zachary M.; Boga, Hamadi I.; Ndalut, Paul K. (Taylor & Francis, 2011-09-26)

In this study soils from sugarcane-cultivated ﬁelds were screened for bacterial species capable of atrazine (6-chloro-N2-ethyl-N4isopropyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine)degradationduetolongexposureofthesoilstothisherbicide. ...
Effects of carbon amendment on in situ atrazine degradation and total microbial biomass

NGIGI, ANASTASIAH N.; GETENGA, ZACHARY M.; ULRIKE, D¨ORFLER; BOGA, HAMADI I.; KURIA, BENSON; NDALUT, PAUL (ARPN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science, 2013)

This study elucidates the effects of carbon amendment on metabolic degradation of atrazine (6-chloro-N2-ethyl-N4-isopropyl-1,3,5triazine-2,4-diamine) and total microbial biomass in soil. Degradation of 14C-ring-labelled ...