Article
Effects of metam sodium fumigation on the abundance, activity, and diversity of soil bacterial communities
2018-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Metam sodium is a fumigant used as a crop pretreatment in agriculture to control a wide array of pests, and soil borne diseases that may adversely affect plant quantity and quality. This present study utilized control and treated field plots to examine the effects of metam sodium on indigenous soil microbes in terms of numbers, activity, and diversity. Following metam sodium application, culturable heterotrophic c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b58ef412-5548-5a9a-91f0-d42eb7b00f71
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.10.012
