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Enhanced Biodegradation of Carbamothioates after Cold Storage of Treated Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Vicki W. McCusker ,
Horace D. Skipper ,
Dewitt T. Gooden  and
Joseph P. Zublena
Vicki W. McCusker
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. and Soils, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC 29634-0359
Horace D. Skipper
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. and Soils, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC 29634-0359
Dewitt T. Gooden
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. and Soils, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC 29634-0359
Joseph P. Zublena
Affiliation:
Dep. Soil Science, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695-7619
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Abstract

Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate butylate and EPTC degradation in two butylate-history soils collected in 1983, 1984, and 1985, and stored at 4 C. No significant differences in biodegradation of butylate and EPTC were found due to length of cold storage of Varina or Wagram soils. Enhanced biodegradation of butylate and cross-adaptation for EPTC were not affected. Storage of soils up to 2 yr should not adversely affect results.

Keywords

Butylate, S-ethyl bis(2-methylpropyl)carbamothioateEPTC, S-ethyl dipropylcarbamothioateCross-adaptationbutylateEPTCherbicides

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Type
Soil, Air, and Water
Information
Weed Science , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , November 1990 , pp. 598 - 601
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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