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A Herbicide‐induced Abnormality in Sugar Beet
Author(s) -
Boyd A. E. W.,
Erskine D. S. C.,
Byford W. J.,
Webb D. J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1970.tb01009.x
Subject(s) - sugar beet , biology , sowing , abnormality , sugar , agronomy , biochemistry , medicine , psychiatry
SUMMARY Twisting of roots of sugar beet has been associated with the application to the soil of certain herbicides. Severe twisting resulted in root constrictions which in some respects resembled ‘strangles’. Symptoms were most severe when the herbicide was intimately mixed with the soil either after or immediately before sowing.