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Toxicity of Benzoic Acid Herbicides to Cotton and Soybeans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

A. F. Wiese
Affiliation:
Texas Agr. Expt. Sta., Southwestern Great Plains Field Station, Bushland, Texas
A. G. Martin
Affiliation:
Hale County Noxious Weed Control District, Plainview, Texas. Approved as TAES T. A. 4055
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Abstract

Polychlorobenzoic acids (PBA), 2,3,6-trichlorobenzoic acid (2,3,6-TBA), and 2,3,6-trichlorophenylacetic acid (fenac) sprays were applied safely for the eradication of perennial weeds at not over 20 pounds per square inch in winds less than 11 miles per hour in and near cotton. Use of these herbicides near soybeans was hazardous because very small quantities of them caused leaf deformities and some loss in seed yield.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Weed Science Society of America 

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