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Dissipation of Endothall and Effects on Aquatic Weeds and Fish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

R. R. Yeo*
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. of Agr., and Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, California

Abstract

Rates of dissipation, control of troublesome aquatic weeds, and toxicity to fish by the disodium and dipotassium salts of 7-oxabicyclo(2,2,1)-heptane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid (endothall) in farm reservoirs and in growth pools were studied from 1964 to 1967. In 4 out of 14 reservoir applications, initial concentrations of 0.3 to 1.4 ppm dissipated to near the limit of detection in 8 to 20 days. In the other 10, the dissipation ranged from 23 to an increase of 160% in 12 days. The average dissipation was 71%. In growth pools, initial concentrations of 0.5 to 4.0 ppm of endothal dissipated to 0.26 to 2.5 ppm in 12 days.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1970 Weed Science Society of America 

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