Reduced plant uptake of pesticides with biochar additions to soil
Xiang-Yang Yu a,b
, Guang-Guo Ying a,c
, Rai S.
Kookana a,*
a
CSIRO Land and Water, PMB No.
2, Glen Osmond 5064, Australia
b
Pesticide Biological and Ecological Research Center, Jiangsu...
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Reduced plant uptake of pesticides with biochar additions to soil
Xiang-Yang Yu a,b
, Guang-Guo Ying a,c
, Rai S.
Kookana a,*
a
CSIRO Land and Water, PMB No.
2, Glen Osmond 5064, Australia
b
Pesticide Biological and Ecological Research Center, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
c
State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 16 January 2009
Received in revised form 1 April 2009
Accepted 1 April 2009
Available online 5 May 2009
Keywords:
Pesticide
Charcoal
Black carbon
Bioavailability
Plant uptake
Produce contamination
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We investigated the effectiveness of two types of biochars in reducing the bioavailability of two soilapplied insecticides (chlorpyrifos and carbofuran) to Spring onion (Allium cepa).
The biochars prepared
from the pyrolysis of Eucalyptus spp.
wood chips at 450 and 850 °C (BC850) were tho
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