Toxicity of Fungicides

INTRODUCTION Fungicides are agents that are used to prevent or eradicate fungal infections from plants or seeds. Numerous substances having widely varying chemical constituents are used as fungicides (Gupta, 1988; Gupta, 2016).Fungicides have been classified according to chemical structures or have been categorized agriculturally and horticulturally according to the mode of action (Ballantyne, 2004). According to the mode of application,...

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Health for all: Overview of Herbicide Poisoning

Health for all: Overview of Herbicide Poisoning: prevention is better than cure Herbicides are used routinely to control noxious plants. Most of these chemicals, particularly the more recently developed synthetic organic herbicides, are quite selective for specific plants and have low toxicity for mammals; other less selective compounds (eg, sodium arsenite, arsenic trioxide, sodium chlorate, ammonium sulfamate, borax, and many...

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PK Gupta Series 10: TOXICOLOGY Question and Answer bank

INTRODUCTION TOXICOLOGY Question and Answer bank is aimed to make the study of toxicology simple and understandable ---------------- Exercise 1 1.        Which one of the following statements regarding toxicology is true? a. Modern toxic ology is concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on ancient forms of life. b. Modern toxicology studies embrace principles...

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