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Prometryn Movement Across and Through the Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

F. L. Baldwin
Affiliation:
Dep. of Agron., Oklahoma State University. Currently Ext. Agron., Arkansas Agr. Ext. Ser., Little Rock, AR 72203
P. W. Santelmann
Affiliation:
Dep. of Agron., Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074
J. M. Davidson
Affiliation:
Dep. of Soil Sci., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Abstract

Specially constructed runoff plots were used to study the effect of simulated rainfall intensity, antecedent soil moisture, and subsequent rainfall on prometryn [2,4-bis(isopropylamino)-6-methylthio-s-triazine] movement across and through a field soil with a 1% slope. The first cm (45.4 L) of runoff was collected and subdivided. The initial 3.8 L of runoff water generally contained a higher concentration of prometryn than did a composite from the next 41.6 L. The sediment contained a higher prometryn concentration than did the runoff water. However, due to the greater volume of water lost compared to sediment, over 90% of the prometryn lost was in the water fraction. When prometryn was applied to a dry soil and rainfall simulated, runoff losses of prometryn were 0.5% or less of the total amount initially applied. The first runoff producing simulated rainfall caused the largest prometryn losses, but prometryn could not be detected in the runoff 1 month subsequent to application. Prometryn was never detected at soil depths greater than 5 cm. Prometryn runoff was greater from plots in which the soil was wet at the time of application.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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