“…The performance of pesticides depends on many environmental and edaphic factors, including soil type (6), clay arid organic matter content (1), soil water potential (3), pH (10), and temperature (19). Obrigawitch et al (12,13,14), Wilson (18), and others (4,5,7,8,9,10,11,15,17) also reported that repeated applications of the same or similar herbicides decreased their effectiveness by acceler ating microbial degradation.…”