**Meet the editor**

Dr. AbdelGhany Hasaneen gained his BSc (Hon) from Mansoura University, Egypt in 1975 and soon went on to obtain his Masters in Plant Physiology followed by his PhD in 1978 and 1982 respectively. Since 1982, he has worked at the same university – first as an assistant lecturer and eventually progressing to become a professor of Plant Physiology in 1994. In 2006 he was appointed as

head of the Botany Department and assumed the role of external examiner and reviewer for a number of high profile, international scientific publications, including the American Journal of Environment and Pollution, Pakistan Journal of Cytology & Molecular Biology, and the Indian Journal of Biological Sciences. Dr AbdelGhany Hasaneen continues to specialize in the field of growth and metabolism of plants, with interests in the physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms associated with tolerance of crop plants to environmental stress in addition to biotechnology - with particular emphasis on salinity, drought, water logging, chilling, herbicides and production of biopolymers. He has published 56 papers in both national and international journals in the fields of plant physiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, herbicides, molecular biology and biomaterials.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Synthesis and Properties 1** 

Chapter 1 **Preparation and Characterization** 

and Leonardo F. Fraceto

Chapter 2 **Benzoxazolinone Detoxification** 

Chapter 4 **The Influence of Biochar Production** 

S.A. Clay and D.D. Malo

and Antonio Batista Filho

Chapter 5 **Chemical Behaviour and Herbicidal Activity** 

Helena Prosen

**of Polymeric Microparticles Used** 

**for Controlled Release of Ametryn Herbicide 3**  Fabiana A. Lobo, Carina L. de Aguirre, Patrícia M.S. Souza, Renato Grillo, Nathalie F.S. de Melo, André H. Rosa

**and Degradation – A Molecule´s Journey 17** 

Chapter 3 **Fate and Determination of Triazine Herbicides in Soil 43** 

**on Herbicide Sorption Characteristics 59** 

**of Cyclohexanedione Oxime Herbicides 75**  Pilar Sandín-España, Beatriz Sevilla-Morán,

Chapter 6 **1(Heterocyclyl),2,4,5-Tetrasubstituted Benzenes as** 

Hai-Bo Yu, Xue-Ming Cheng and Bin Li

José Luis Alonso-Prados and Inés Santín-Montanyá

Chapter 7 **Persistence of Herbicide Sulfentrazone in Soil Cultivated** 

Flávio Martins Garcia Blanco, Edivaldo Domingues Velini

**Protoporphyrinogen-IX Oxidase Inhibiting Herbicides 103** 

**with Sugarcane and Soy and Effect on Crop Rotation 119** 

Heinrich W. Scherer and Felix Martin Ritter

Margot Schulz, Dieter Sicker, František Baluška, Tina Sablofski,
