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Effect of 2,4-D and Various Salts on Eurasian Watermilfoil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Ronald A. Stanley
Ronald A. Stanley*
Affiliation:
Biol., Environmental Biol. Branch, Div. of Environmental Planning, TVA, Muscle Shoals, Al 35660
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Abstract

The management of Eurasian watermilfoil, an inimical aquatic weed in the Tennessee Valley, involves the use of water level management and herbicidal treatment with 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid]. The possible use of other chemicals to make 2,4-D more effective was tested by measuring growth of Eurasian watermilfoil under laboratory conditions with combinations of sublethal levels of 2,4-D and partially inhibitory concentrations of AlCl3, NH4Cl, Na2AsO2, BaCl2, Na2B4O7, CuSO4, HgCl2, Pb(NO3)2, NaCl, and ZnSO4. At the levels tested, BaCl2, Pb(NO3)2, and ZnSO4 were only additive in effect with 2,4-D. Other compounds produced synergism at some concentrations and mutual antagonism at other levels. The greatest synergism was obtained by using HgCl2, AlCl3, and NaCl at 0.2 μM, 10.0 μM, and 200.00 mM respectively.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , November 1974 , pp. 591 - 594
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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