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Inhibition of Soil Nitrification by Dichlobenil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

William B. Cook  and
John E. Carr
William B. Cook
Affiliation:
Dep. Biol., Central Washington Univ., Ellensburg, WA 98926
John E. Carr
Affiliation:
Dep. Biol., Central Washington Univ., Ellensburg, WA 98926
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Abstract

The herbicide dichlobenil (2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile) inhibited soil nitrification significantly at 100 ppm following 1 and 2 weeks incubation but did not inhibit nitrification at the rates recommended for weed control.

Keywords

Ammonium ionnitrateammonia-selective electrodenitrapyrin
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 285 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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