The herbicide treatments were glyphosate, glyphosate and metsulfuron-methyl, triclopyr, and triclopyr and metsulfuron-methyl. Metsulfuron-methyl has some soil activity, so there was concern about ...

Now, a team led by Craig Williams at The University of Queensland has created a fifth, cyclooctatetraene-metsulfuron methyl. They made it by furnishing the already used and understood herbicide, ...

Research on tribenuron methyl and metsulfuron methyl revealed that a specific bacterial consortium could effectively degrade these compounds, reducing their toxicity in the environment [5].