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Relation of Light Quality to Effects of 2,4–D on Chlorophyll and CO2 Exchange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

George Williams  and
Stuart Dunn
George Williams
Affiliation:
Botany Department, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Stuart Dunn
Affiliation:
Botany Department, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
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Many of the pathways by which weedkillers, such as 2,4–dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4–D), affect plants are still obscure. Frequently the adverse effect seems to involve an alteration of metabolism, but the exact nature of this is sometimes not clear. Photosynthesis and respiration under different conditions may be either stimulated or inhibited. Other results, in which a decolorization of tissue with increasing amounts of 2,4–D was observed, suggest that the herbicide either interferes with the formation of chlorophyll, or causes increased destruction.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1961 , pp. 243 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © 1961 Weed Science Society of America 

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