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Rapid Inactivation of Glyphosate in the Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Paul Sprankle ,
W. F. Meggitt  and
Donald Penner
Paul Sprankle
Affiliation:
Dep. of Crop and Soil Sci., Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824
W. F. Meggitt
Affiliation:
Dep. of Crop and Soil Sci., Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824
Donald Penner
Affiliation:
Dep. of Crop and Soil Sci., Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824
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Abstract

In greenhouse studies, soil applications of 14C-methyl-labeled glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine] were not readily absorbed by corn (Zea mays L. ‘Michigan 400’) and soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘Hark’]. However, glyphosate available to plants in sand culture was absorbed. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ‘Avon’) a sensitive bioassay plant, was used to detect the herbicide. Clay loam and muck soil rapidly inactivated 56 kg/ha of glyphosate. Autoclaving of the soil did not prevent the inactivation of glyphosate. In a sandy clay loam soil, application of 56 kg/ha of glyphosate decreased plant growth with increasing pH. Additions of 98 or 196 kg/ha of phosphate to the soil surface decreased glyphosate inactivation in the soil. It is postulated that initial inactivation of glyphosate in soil is by reversible adsorption to clay and organic matter through the phosphonic acid moiety.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , May 1975 , pp. 224 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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