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...