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Metabolism of 2,4-D by Cotton and Grain Sorghum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Page W. Morgan  and
Wayne C. Hall
Page W. Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station
Wayne C. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station
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Abstract

Foliar absorption of 2,4-D-C14 was rapid in both species. Cotton decarboxylated the side chain of 2,4-D several times faster than sorghum. Both species released C14O2 faster from the carboxyl than from the methylene position. Cotton slowly converted 2,4-D to a chromatographically different material in young leaves and bolls. Sorghum rapidly converted 2,4-D to a product different from 2,4-D and the 2,4-D-complex in cotton. After cotton recovered from 2,4-D-treatment, the regulator could not be detected in subsequent vegetative or reproductive growth.

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Weeds , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1963 , pp. 130 - 135
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Copyright © 1963 Weed Science Society of America 

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