Effect of pencycuron on microbial parameters of waterlogged soil
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...After application, a large portion of insecticides accumulate in the top soil layer (0-10 cm) and exert deleterious effects on microbial diversity (Das et al. 2005) thereby leading to a loss in soil fertility (Pal et al. 2006)....
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...2005) thereby leading to a loss in soil fertility (Pal et al. 2006)....
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...This study revealed that the metabolically activated microbial population was more suppressed compared to the dormant population ( Pal et al. 2006 )....
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...Subsequently, abnormally high concentrations of insecticides may lead to a considerable loss in soil fertility ( Pal et al. 2006 )....
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...Microbiological Assays The MBC was determined by fumigation extraction method[19] followed by determination of K2SO4 extractable C.[20] Biomass C was estimated as:...
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...Waterlogging often alters physico-chemical and microbiological processes,[13] which might alter the fate of pesticides in that situation....
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...Further, the microorganisms had to face the stress of oxygen depletion along with other detrimental influences of waterlogging,[13] which caused further reduction in MBC....
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...Reliable biomass measurements by this method can be obtained in soils of widely different physico-chemical properties, which are waterlogged and recently amended with organic matter.[19] These conditions prevailed herein....
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...Microbiological Assays The MBC was determined by fumigation extraction method[19] followed by determination of K2SO4 extractable C....
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...The effect can force microbes to utilize a large part of their energy budget for maintenance, thus reducing mineralization activity.[30] As a result, more CO2 is evolved per unit microbial biomass....
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...Anderson and Domsch[8,30] and Beelen and Doelman[4] proposed that the respiration rate per unit microbial biomass, termed as qCO2, is a more sensitive indicator of toxic effects of xenobiotic compounds than the respiration rate or the amount of microbial biomass alone....
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