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An Inexpensive, Positive Pressure, Soil Perfusion System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

D. D. Kaufman*
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
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Abstract

A simple, inexpensive soil perfusion unit for use in studying the microbial decomposition of pesticides is described. This unit has the advantage of being equally adaptable to positive or negative pressure systems.

Type
Brief Papers
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 Weed Science Society of America 

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