Atrazine is a chlorinated herbicide of the triazine class. It is used to prevent pre-emergence broadleaf weeds in crops such as maize (corn), soybean and...
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American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cited research on the effects of atrazine frogs which can induce spontaneous sex change or hermaphroditism, purportedly...
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Tyrone Hayes (section Atrazine research)
He is known for his research in frogs, concluding that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes male frogs, causing them...
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Atrazine Chlorohydrolase (AtzA) is an enzyme (E.C.3.8.1.8), which catalyzes the conversion of atrazine to hydroxyatrazine. Bacterial degradation determines...
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Pesticides in the United States (section Atrazine)
them are used in houses, yards, parks, golf courses, and swimming pools. Atrazine is the second-most commonly used herbicide in the United States after glyphosate...
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chloride is the main precursor to the popular but controversial herbicide atrazine. Cyanuric chloride is prepared in two steps from hydrogen cyanide via the...
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Atrazine does not break down readily (within a few weeks) after being applied to soils of above-neutral pH. Under alkaline soil conditions, atrazine may...
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micro-autoradiography. For example, micro-autoradiography was used to examine whether atrazine was being metabolized by the hornwort plant or by epiphytic microorganisms...
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Xenoestrogen (section Atrazine)
Atrazine is widely used as an herbicide to control broad-leaf weed species that grow in crops such as corn, sugarcane, hay and winter wheat. Atrazine...
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that a common herbicide called Atrazine causes abdominal wall defects as well as other birth defects and cancer. Atrazine has been banned in the EU since...
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