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Chorella vulgaris Assay of the Activity of Soil Herbicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

D. A. Addison  and
C. E. Bardsley
C. E. Bardsley
Affiliation:
NDEA Fellow and Associate Professor
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Abstract

An assay technique utilizing Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck gave highly significant responses to low concentrations of aqueous 3-(p-chlorophenyl)-l,l dimethylurea (monuron), 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (diuron), and 2,4-bis(isopropylamino)-6-methylmercapto-s-triazine (prometryne) following 6 days of incubation. Water extracts of diuron from soil assayed with this organism were highly correlated with diuron added to the soil. Similar correlations for oats (Avena sativa L.) grown on the soil and for diuron in the water extracts as dichloroaniline serve to substantiate the relative effectiveness of the method. Assay of soil samples from field residue plots taken 150 days after herbicidal application showed that active residues of diuron and prometryne were detectable by the organism. Although the chemical method was faster, it has the disadvantage of measuring any dichloroaniline residues rather than only the active residues. The method developed insures a considerable saving in time over herbicide assays involving higher plants and gives reasonably good quantitative data on low concentrations of toxic monuron, diuron, and prometryne.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 427 - 429
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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