There are few consistent and comprehensive data sets for the calibration and veri®cation of computer models of pesticide fate in agro-ecosystems. To partly close this gap the data base of the multidisciplinary Weiherbach research project was used to form a data set that is well suited for that purpose. It has been successfully used during the COST Action 66 model comparison. The Weiherbach rese...

Abstract Ecological memory (EM) recognizes the importance of previous stress encounters in promoting community tolerance and thereby enhances ecosystem stability, provided that gained tolerances are preserved during non-stress periods. Drawing from this concept, we hypothesized recruitment tolerant species can be facilitated by imposing an initial sorting process (conditioning) early stages ass...

in order to study the response of wheat (triticum aestivum) cv. chamran and wild barley (hordeum spontaneum) to different herbicides, a pot dose response experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with three replication at research greenhouse of ferdowsi university of mashhad in 2008. different doses of herbicides including clodinafop propargyl, pinoxaden, sulfosulfuron, and met...

Glutathione transferases (GST) were purified from locally isolated bacteria, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Y1, by glutathione-affinity chromatography and anion exchange, and their substrate specificities were investigated. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the purified GST resolved into a single band with a molecular weight (MW) of 23 kDa. 2-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresi...

A soil bacterium (designated strain SRS2) able to metabolize the phenylurea herbicide isoproturon, 3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (IPU), was isolated from a previously IPU-treated agricultural soil. Based on a partial analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and the cellular fatty acids, the strain was identified as a Sphingomonas sp. within the alpha-subdivision of the proteobacteria. Strain SRS2...

Three diclofop-methyl (DM) resistant biotypes of Lolium rigidum (R1, R2, and R3) were found in different winter wheat fields in Spain, continuously treated with DM, DM + chlortoluron, or DM + isoproturon. Herbicide rates that inhibited shoot growth by 50% (ED50) were determined for DM. There were found that the different biotypes exhibited different ranges of resistance to this herbicide; the r...

In the context of massive summer mortality events of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, the aim of this study was to investigate the early effects on genes, enzymes and haemocyte parameters implicated in immune defence mechanisms in C. gigas oysters exposed to a potentially hostile environment, i.e. to an herbicide alone or within a mixture. Following 2 h of exposure to the herbicide diuron ...