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An Inexpensive, Positive Pressure, Soil Perfusion System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

D. D. Kaufman
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.

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Weeds , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1966, pp. 90 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 Weed Science Society of America 

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