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Environmental Effects on Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) Epicuticular Wax Deposition and Herbicide Absorption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

H. Hatterman-Valenti ,
A. Pitty  and
M. Owen
H. Hatterman-Valenti*
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, 3218 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
A. Pitty
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, 3218 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
M. Owen
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, 3218 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Controlled environment experiments showed that velvetleaf plants grown under drought stress or low temperature (LT) treatments had greater leaf epicuticular wax (ECW) deposition compared to plants grown in soil with moisture at field capacity (FC) or a high temperature (HT) regime. Light intensity did not affect ECW deposition; however, increasing light intensity decreased the leaf ECW ester content and increased the secondary alcohol content. Plants grown at an LT regime or under FC had leaf ECW with fewer hydrocarbons and more esters than those grown at an HT or drought stress regime. Velvetleaf absorption of acifluorfen increased as light intensity decreased for plants grown in adequate soil water content, while the opposite was true for drought-stressed plants. Velvetleaf absorption of acifluorfen was approximately 3 and 10 times greater, respectively, with the addition of 28% urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) in comparison to crop oil concentrate (COC) or no adjuvant, regardless of the environmental treatments. Plants absorbed more acifluorfen when subjected to the LT regime in comparison to the HT regime when UAN was the adjuvant, while the opposite was true when COC was the adjuvant. Velvetleaf absorption of acifluorfen was not affected by drought stress when COC or no adjuvant was used and varied between studies when UAN was used. Velvetleaf absorption of bentazon was greatest for plants grown under HT/FC or high light/FC treatments and least with plants grown under HT/drought stress or low light/drought stress treatments, regardless of the adjuvant. However, bentazon absorption was higher with the addition of an adjuvant and for plants grown at a high light intensity or FC condition compared with medium to low light intensity or drought stress treatments.

Keywords

Acifluorfenbentazonvelvetleaf Abutilon theophrasti Medic. ABUTHDrought stresstemperaturelight intensityherbicide uptakeepicuticular wax quality
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 14 - 21
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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