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Protecting Alfalfa Seedlings from a Triazine with Activated Charcoal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

D. L. Linscott
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture at the Agronomy Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
R. D. Hagin
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture at the Agronomy Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Abstract

Narrow bands of activated charcoal sprayed on the soil surface directly over the rows seeded with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L., var. Cayuga) in the field protected the legume from damage by a broadcast application of 2-isopropylamino-4-(3-methoxypropylamino)-6-methylthio-s-triazine (hereafter referred to as G-36393). Charcoal suspended in water and applied at 25 to 50 lb/A, gave adequate protection from 1.5 lb/A G-36393. Higher rates of charcoal, 100 lb/A, were necessary to protect the legume from a 3.0 lb/A application. Charcoal did not protect alfalfa seedlings from 1.5 lb/A 2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine (atrazine).

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 304 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 Weed Science Society of America 

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