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Effect of Maleic Hydrazide on Soil Bacteria and other Microorganisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

L. G. Nickell  and
A. R. English
L. G. Nickell
Affiliation:
Biochemical Research Laboratories, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Brooklyn, New York
A. R. English
Affiliation:
Biochemical Research Laboratories, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Brooklyn, New York
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Within the past few years the use of chemicals as herbicides has increased so rapidly that today in the United States alone millions of acres are being treated in the fight to control weeds. In addition to determining the effect of these chemicals on the plants involved (both desirable ones as well as weeds), it is most important to find out how the compounds affect the soil microflora. This assemblage of microscopic organisms plays a most vital role in the balance of nature, and, if the herbicide to be employed has as great an effect on the soil population as it does on the higher plants, its use might be impractical due to the resultant imbalance.

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Weeds , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 190 - 195
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Copyright © 1953 Weed Science Society of America 

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