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Accumulation and Metabolism of Bromacil in Pineapple Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis) and Cleopatra Mandarin (Citrus reticulata)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

L. S. Jordan  and
W. A. Clerx
L. S. Jordan
Affiliation:
Dep. Bot. and Plant Sci., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521
W. A. Clerx
Affiliation:
Dep. Bot. and Plant Sci., Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521
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Abstract

Young orange [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Pineapple sweet orange’] trees are more sensitive to bromacil (5-bromo-3-sec-butyl-6-methyluracil) than young mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Cleopatra mandarin’) trees. Pineapple sweet orange roots absorbed twice as much 14C from bromacil, and accumulated three times as much in the leaves, as did Cleopatra mandarin. The amount of conjugated metabolites formed was the same in the roots of the two cultivars, but twice as much formed in the leaves of Cleopatra mandarin as in the leaves of Pineapple sweet orange. The principle metabolite was 5-bromo-3-sec-butyl-6-hydroxymethyluracil; a minor metabolite was tentatively identified as 5-bromo-3-(3-hydroxyl-1-methylpropyl)-6-methyluracil. No 5-bromouracil was detected. Citrus cultivars differ in their ability to accumulate and metabolize bromacil into conjugated nonphytotoxic compounds.

Keywords

Herbicidedistributiontoleranceconjugationaglycone
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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