Commercial herbicides exhibit many different mechanisms of action. Several enzymes involved in biosynthesis of amino acids are sites of action for herbicides. A large number of different herbicide classes inhibit photosynthesis by binding to the quinone-binding protein, D-1, to prevent photosynthetic electron transfer. Several different types of herbicides apparently cause accumulation of photo...

Residual herbicides used in the production of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] and corn (Zea mays L.) are often detected in surface runoff at concentrations exceeding their maximum contaminant levels (MCL) or health advisory levels (HAL). With the advent of transgenic, glyphosate-tolerant soybean and glufosinate-tolerant corn this concern might be reduced by replacing some of the residual herbic...

Commercial herbicides exhibit many different mechanisms of action. Several enzymes involved in biosynthesis of amino acids are sites of action for herbicides. A large number of different herbicide classes inhibit photosynthesis by binding to the quinone-binding protein, D-1, to prevent photosynthetic electron transfer. Several different types of herbicides apparently cause accumulation of photo...

Experiments were performed investigating the potential to improve the biological activity of some phenoxy and organophosphorous compounds by using them in binary mixtures. The compounds were: 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (1) and its sodium salt (2), dibutyl 1-butylamino-1-cyclohexanephosphonate (3) and diethyl 9-butylamino-9-fluorenephosphonate (4), all widely used as herbicides. There were t...

The mixed function oxidase trans-cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase, cytochrome P-450, cytochrome b(5), and NADPH-cytochrome c (P-450) reductase were measured in microsomes from aging artichoke tuber slices exposed to manganese, ethanol, phenobarbital, and the herbicides Chloro-IPC, Dichlobenil, and Monuron. Although the microsomal hydroxylating complex is already induced by the slicing and aging proc...

Spring application of post-emergence (POST) broadleaf herbicides in a urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as the carrier may provide winter wheat growers with a one-pass option for weed control and nitrogen application. Winter wheat tolerance to bromoxynil/MCPA, dichlorprop/2,4-D, thifensulfuron/tribenuron + MCPA amine or pyrasulfotole/bromoxynil applied using 28% UAN at various carrier volumes (0, 100...

Among chlorosis-inducing herbicides that interfere with carotenoid synthesis two groups o f different potency can be discriminated (group 1; aminotriazole amd haloxidine; group 2 with more extensive photodestructions: pyridazinone herbicides and difunon). After application of herbicides o f group 2 colored carotenoids were completely absent and preexisting chlorophyll was degraded by photochemi...

Reactive barriers are used for in situ treatment of contaminated ground water. Waste green sand, a by-product of gray-iron foundries that contains iron particles and organic carbon, was evaluated in this study as a low-cost reactive material for treating ground water contaminated with the herbicides alachlor [2-chloro-2',6'-diethyl-N-(methoxymethyl)acetanilide] and metolachlor [2-chloro-6'-ethy...