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Oxadiazon Activity is Similar to That of p-Nitro-Diphenyl Ether Herbicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Stephen O. Duke
Affiliation:
USDA, Agric. Res. Serv., South. Weed Sci. Lab., P.O. Box 350, Stoneville, MS 38776
John Lydon
Affiliation:
USDA, Agric. Res. Serv., South. Weed Sci. Lab., P.O. Box 350, Stoneville, MS 38776
Rex N. Paul
Affiliation:
USDA, Agric. Res. Serv., South. Weed Sci. Lab., P.O. Box 350, Stoneville, MS 38776

Abstract

Oxadiazon (10 μM) caused rapid, light-dependent membrane damage to cucumber cotyledon discs. Electrolyte leakage was detected within 1 h of exposure to light, as were cytoplasmic vesiculation and breakage of the tonoplast and plasmalemma. The ultrastructure of chloroplasts was not affected until the cytoplasm was dispersed. Photosynthetic inhibitors had no effect on activity and, after a period of dark incubation with oxadiazon, there was little effect of temperature on the light-caused membrane destruction. Porphyrin synthesis inhibitors (gabaculine and 4,6-dioxoheptanoic acid) almost completely prevented the herbicidal activity of oxadiazon. Oxadiazon treatment caused accumulation of protoporphyrin IX, a photodynamic pigment. Oxadiazon caused physiological effects on cucumber cotyledons that were virtually identical to those of p-nitro-diphenyl ether herbicides like acifluorfen and its methyl ester, which have recently been shown to also cause protoporphyrin IX accumulation.

Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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