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Notes: Summary. Three box experiments examining the effects of shoot removal on rhizome carbohydrate reserves are reported.During summer in England the optimum frequency of hand defoliation for maximum loss of carbohydrate was 10–14 days. As in previous experiments, high levels of soil nitrogen sometimes increased the rate of carbohydrate loss from 9-in. rhizome pieces. This result was obtained when nitrogen was supplied as a nitrate, an ammonium salt, or urea.Repeated applications of 2 or 4 oz/ac paraquat over a period of about 60 days reduced carbohydrate reserves to about 50% of the level obtained with the same number of hand clippings. It is suggested that paraquat may have been translocated to the rhizomes, the carbohydrate content of which may have been reduced by an effect of the paraquat on the respiration rate.When plants which had been subjected to different methods and frequencies of defoliation were uprooted and buried beneath 2 in. of soil, there was a connection between the rhizome carbohydrate content at the time of burial, the ability of the plants to regenerate, and the rate at which new carbohydrate reserves built up during the following two months.

Notes: In not experiments with Agropyron repens, Stellaria media and dwarf bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), several acids which are complexing agents enhanced the effects of glyphosate and dichlorprop. Both herbicides were activated by orthophosphoric citric, tartaric, lactic, oxalic and glycollic acids. Other acids which are not complexing agents had little or no effect. Sodium or ammonium salts often acted like the parent acids. Glyphosate activity was increased by EDTA while dichlorprop effects were enhanced by FDTA, NTA and polyphosphates. It is suggested that activation was due to interactions with calcium or other metallic ions, which would otherwise immobilize the herbicides. In field experiments, orthophosphoric or oxalic acids increased the effects of glyphosate on Agrophron bud viability. Ammonium sulphate had a similar effect. However, in contrast to glasshouse experiments, most three-way mixtures of an acid, ammonium sulphate glyphosate wer antagonistic.Les agents complexants en tant qu adjuvants pour les herbicidesDans des experiences en pots avec Agropyron repens, Stellariamedia et des haricots (Phaseolus vulgaris), plusieurs acides qui sont des agents complexants out augmenté l'activitié du glyphosate et du dichlorprop. Ces deux herbicides ont été activés par les acides orthophosphorique, citrique, tartrique, lactique, oxalique et glycollique. D'autres acides, qui ne sont pas des agents complexants, n'ont eu que peu ou pasd'effet. Les sels de sodium ou d'ammonium présentent souvent la méme activité que les acides don't ils dérivent. L'activite du glyphosate a été accrue par l'EDTA, cependant que les effets du dichloprop ont augmenté avec l'EDTA, le NTA et les polyphosphates. II est suggéré que cette activation était due aux interactions avec le calcium ou d'autres ions métalliques qui pourraient, par ailleurs, immobiliser les herbicides. Dans des expériences au champ, les acides orthophosphorique ou oxalique ont augmenté les effets du glyphosate sur la viabilité des bourgeons d'Agropyron. Le sulfate d'ammonium a eu en effet similaire. Toutefois, en opposition avec les expériences en serre, la plupart des mélanges ternaries d'un acide, de sulfate d'ammonium et de glyphosate se sont révélés antagonists.Komplxbildner als Additive für HerbizideIn Gefässversuchen mit Agropyron repens, Stellaria media und Phasealus vulgaris wurde die Wirkung von Glyphosat und Diehlorprop durch komplexbildende Säuren verstärkt. Beide Herbizide wurden a tiviert durch: ortho-Phosphor. Zitronen, Wein, Milch-, Oxal- und Glykolsäure. Andere Säuren, die micht komplexbildend sind, wirkten nur schwach oder gar nicht. Natrium-oder Ammoniumsalze wirkten häufig wie die entsprechenden Säuren. Die Aktivität von Glyphosat wurde durch EDTA verstärkt, während die Wirkung von Dichlorprop durch EDTA, NTA und durch Polyphosphate verbessert wurde. Es wird vermutet, dass die bessere Wirkung in Interaklionen mit Kalzium oder anderern Metallionen zu suchen ist, die sonst die Herbizide immobilisieren. In Feldversuchen wurde durch ortho-Phosphorsäure und Oxalsäure die Wirkung von Glyphosat auf die Lebensfähigkeit von Agropyron-Knospen erhöht. Ammoniumsulfat wirkte ähnlich Im Gegensatz zu Versuchen im Gewächshaus wirkien aber die meisten Dreikomponenten Mischungen von Säure. Ammoniumsulfat und Glyphosat, antagonistisch

Notes: In glasshouse experiments, additions of 10–100 g 1−1 ammonium sulphate enhanced the phytotoxicity to broadleaved weeds and cereals of several water-soluble herbicides applied post-emergence in 75–300 1 ha−1 with hydraulic nozzles. Studies with dichlorprop potassium salt and chickweed Stellaria media (L.) Vill. examined interactions between ammonium sulphate and environmental, application and formulation factors. Simulated rainfall immediately after spraying greatly reduced dichlorprop activity, whether or not ammonium sulphate was present. However, when there was an interval of 2–24 h between spraying and rainfall, the additive increased phytotoxicity. Surfactants tended to reduce dichlorprop phytotoxicity to Stellaria media, both in the presence and absence of ammonium sulphate. Certain other inorganic salts including sodium sulphate also enhanced phytotoxicity. Applications by rotary atomizer in very low spray volume (15 1 ha−1, 250–280 μm drops) were less effective than conventional 150 1 ha−1 applications. When very low volume application was used, addition of ammonium sulphate or nitrate tended to reduce activity further. In the field, ammonium sulphate significantly increased the effects against weeds of a commercial dichlorprop potassium salt formulation applied conventionally in 200 1 ha−1 spray volume. Neutralized phosphoric acid had a similar effect but a mixture of this additive and ammonium sulphate reduced phytotoxicity. Both additives slightly increased dichlorprop injury to barley.

Notes: In pot experiments, mixtures of ammonium sulphate with surfactants or oil additives increased the phytotoxicity of commercially formulated bentazone (‘Basagran’) to Stellaria media (chickweed). Ammonium sulphate with a proprietary oil adjuvant Actipron had similar effects with benazolin potassium salt, but not with an ethyl ester formulation of benazolin. The phytotoxicity of bentazone and benazolin salts to Trifolium repens (white clover) and Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass) was almost unaffected by these additives. In a field experiment, a mixture of ammonium sulphate with Actipron improved the control of S. media by bentazone and benazolin salts.Oils and surfactants markedly increased rates of entry of 14C bentazone into leaves of S. media, white clover and Chrysanthemum segetum. Ammonium sulphate sometimes had similar effects but on other occasions reduced uptake. In some circumstances the additives apparently interacted synergistically, to increase uptake of labelled herbicide into the leaf or to enhance its transport within the plant. In these test species, differential absorption of bentazone could not explain differences in species susceptibility, suggesting that the main cause of resistance was the ability of plants to degrade the herbicide.

Notes: Summary. A laboratory method is described for studying the effects of introducing herbicides into the vascular tissues oi Populus cuttings. Of sixteen herbicides tested in this way, MCPA and picloram were the most phytotoxic. Ester formulations of growth regulator herbicides were less active than water soluble amine or inorganic salts. The phytotoxic effects of the latter were increased by supplying water to the cuttings before or after treatment or by applying the herbicide in a relatively large volume of water. A non-ionic surfactant did not increase the effects of injected MCPA salt, approximately similar amounts of which moved both upwards and downwards in cuttings from the point of introduction. Expériences en laboratoire sur des boutures de Populus × euroamericana “I-78” traités avec des herbicides

Notes: Underwater photogrammetry is being used in the particularly hostile environment of the North Sea where it has been put into commercially viable operation. The authors discuss underwater photogrammetry related to other means of inspection of oil platforms. They also deal with operational experience of 35 mm and 70 mm cameras, camera calibration, the provision of control and photogrammetric observations and data analysis. The demand for underwater photogrammetry continues to grow.

Notes: Summary. A factorial experiment with couch grass (Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv.) grown in boxes examined the effects of rhizome fragmentation, planting depth and shoot removal on the survival of rhizome pieces, new rhizome growth and rhizome carbohydrate reserves.Burial to 4 in. depth in sandy loam soil led to the death of 54% of 1 in. long rhizome pieces and 28% of 3 in. pieces. With all the segment lengths tested deeper planting decreased the proportion of buds which produced shoots.Shoot removal every 14 days decreased the dry weight and carbohydrate content of the planted rhizomes and prevented new rhizome growth. Segments 1 or 3 in. long lost their carbohydrate reserves more quickly than 9 in. pieces. Rhizomes planted at 4 in. depth contained less carbohydrate after establishment than shallow-planted material, and produced less new rhizome growth.IS Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv.–Quelques effets de la fragmentation et de l'enfouissement du rhizome et de la defoliation