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Determination and Characterization of the Effects of Fluometuron and MSMA on Chlorella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

T. O. Blythe ,
S. M. Grooms  and
R. E. Frans
T. O. Blythe
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
S. M. Grooms
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
R. E. Frans
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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Abstract

Studies were conducted on the effects of fluometuron [1,1-dimethyl-3-(α,α,α-trifluoro-m-tolyl)urea] on autotrophic growth (no sugar), heterotrophic growth (with sugar), and oxygen evolution and uptake and on the effects of MSMA (monosodium methanearsonate) on autotrophic growth and oxygen evolution and uptake by the unicellular green alga Chlorella pyrenoidosa Emerson strain (University of Texas). Two methods of analysis (probit and kinetic) were used to characterize the dosage-response of Chlorella to these herbicides. All measurements of Chlorella response to fluometuron were satisfactorily characterized by probit analysis, but only autotrophic cell number was adequately characterized by kinetic analysis. The fluometuron concentrations giving 50% inhibition on the probit plot were as follows: autotrophic cell number, 2.4 × 10−6M; chlorophyll at 400 nm, 3.3 × 10−6M; heterotrophic cell number, 2.4 × 10−6M; oxygen evolution, 20 × 10−6 M. The response of the alga to MSMA was stimulatory instead of inhibitory. Since this stimulation did not consistently range between 10 and 90% of the control, it was not possible to characterize the MSMA dosage-Chlorella response using either type of analysis.

Keywords

Autotrophic growthheterotrophic growthphotosynthesis
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , May 1979 , pp. 294 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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