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- Title
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE PENETRATION AND TRANSLOCATION OF 2,4,5-T IN SOME TROPICAL TREES.
- Authors
Sundaram, Alam
- Abstract
The relative mobility of 14C-labelled 2,4,5-T in the trunks of four different tree species was tested in dry and wet seasons, with the intention of observing the difference in translocation pattern between the susceptible (<em>Piptadeniastrum africanum, Celtis mildbraedii</em>) and the tolerant (<em>Xylopia quintasii, Ricinodendron heudelotii</em>) species. Nine trees were analysed altogether. There was a consistent pattern of adsorption and retention of the arboricide by the phloem of the four sensitive trees and downward movement of the material was marked, but in the five resistant trees the chemical was distributed upward to a greater extent in the transpiration stream. Thus in the susceptible species where there is more phloem movement the chemical is least mobile, whereas in the tolerant ones where the chemical moves in the xylem, it is most mobile. Both types of investigation (longitudinal and radial) indicate that the killing action in the sensitive species is due to the retention of the chemical by the phloem, and that its failure to kill the tolerant trees is due to the upward movement in the transpiration stream via the xylem.
- Subjects
PLANT translocation; TROPICAL plants; TREES; CELTIS; XYLOPIA; RICINODENDRON; XYLEM
- Publication
Weed Research, 1965, Vol 5, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0043-1737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3180.1965.tb00346.x