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Effects of Frost and Maturity on Glyphosate Phytotoxicity, Uptake, and Translocation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

H. E. Davis
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
R. S. Fawcett
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
R. G. Harvey
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

Abstract

The effect of temperatures below 0 C and plant maturity on the phytotoxicity of glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine] on rapidly growing alfalfa (Medicago sativa L. ‘Vernal’) and quackgrass [Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv.] plants was studied in a controlled environment. Pretreatment at −4 C partially protected alfalfa from injury by 0.8 kg/ha of glyphosate at six alfalfa maturities. This same treatment had no significant effect on glyphosate phytotoxicity to quackgrass. Pretreatment at −4 C increased translocation of glyphosate in quackgrass but reduced its translocation in alfalfa. A greater reduction in translocation occurred in the smaller alfalfa plants.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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