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Control of Tree Roots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

O. A. Leonard ,
D. E. Bayer  and
R. K. Glenn
O. A. Leonard
Affiliation:
Dep. of Bot., Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616
D. E. Bayer
Affiliation:
Dep. of Bot., Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616
R. K. Glenn
Affiliation:
Dep. of Bot., Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

Metham (sodium methyldithiocarbamate), applied alone or in combination with dichlobenil (2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile) in foam, was effective in killing roots of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnhardt) or willow (Salix hindsiana Benth.). An air-aqueous (19 to 1) foam of these herbicides was at least 20 times as effective as the aqueous mixture alone. Killing of the root with metham was rapid and extended above the lower treated portion, with the extent of necrosis resulting from translocation of the herbicide varying with concentration of metham that was used. The amount of the root killed with dichlobenil was limited to the treated area regardless of concentration. Four weeks were required to control the larger roots. Root killing with metham proceeded via both the aqueous and vapor phases. Results from labeling trees with 14C-assimilates indicated that neither translocation nor accumulation were greatly affected by metham or dichlobenil except in the tissues actually killed. However, transport and accumulation into untreated roots were reduced for a few weeks by dichlobenil. Similar results were obtained with cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. ‘Acala’) treated with dichlobenil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , September 1974 , pp. 516 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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