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Atrazine and Simazine Increase Yield and Quality of Range Forage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Burgess L. Kay
Burgess L. Kay*
Affiliation:
Dep. of Agron. and Range Sci., Univ. of California, Davis
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Abstract

Application of 2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine (atrazine) to intermediate wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium (Host) Beauv.) increased forage yields, plant protein, and nitrate over a 4-year period. Atrazine or 2-chloro-4,6-bis(ethylamino)-s-triazine (simazine) applied to a sward of red brome (Bromus rubens L.), Arabian grass (Schismus arabicus Nees.), and red-stem filaree (Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her.) increased dry-matter yields sixfold and also increased protein and nitrate nitrogen. Nitrate in plants treated with atrazine increased to near-toxic levels for livestock.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , July 1971 , pp. 370 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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