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Effect of Light Intensity and Quality on Toxicity of Fluorodifen to Green Bean and Soybean Seedlings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Tomas Pollak
Affiliation:
Dep. of Hort., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331
Garvin Crabtree
Affiliation:
Dep. of Hort., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331

Abstract

The effect of light on the response of green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L. ‘Tendercrop’) and soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘Merit’] to fluorodifen (p-nitrophenyl α,α,α-trifluoro-2-nitro-p-tolyl ether) was evaluated with respect to light quantity, quality and time of exposure. Herbicide-induced injury was intensified with exposure of plants to reduced levels of light. Comparisons of light quality indicated that this herbicide interaction with light was greatest at longer wavelengths of visible light (yellow and red). The most critical time for light exposure to result in increased herbicide injury was at the time of emergence of seedlings.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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