Bioremediation to keep atrazine from waterways

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 06:14 in Earth & Climate

Farmers around the world are expected to benefit from the successful trial of an enzyme that breaks down the herbicide, atrazine, in run-off water. 'When we added the enzyme to a holding dam filled with run-off contaminated with atrazine, more than 90 per cent of it was removed in less than four hours,' says CSIRO Entomology's Dr Colin Scott...

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