“…Bound residues of many urea, anilide, and phenoxy herbicides, for instance, were found to be formed via microbial transformation of the active ingredients to chloroanilines or chlorophenols (Hsu and Bartha, 1976;Stott et al, 1983). The involvement of microbes in binding was demonstrated also by Katan and Lichtenstein (1977) using [ 14 C]parathion. However, there are known instances of abiotic binding, such as immobilization of anilazine in soil through ligand exchange (Haider et al, 1993) or the entrapment of prometryn in the molecular net of humus (Khan, 1982).…”