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SODIUM 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-ethyl-sulphate, a chemical of low intrinsic phytotoxicity, can be sprayed in relatively concentrated aqueous solutions on to plants normally sensitive to the hormone herbicides, without serious damage to them; but when it comes into contact with the soil, a high phytotoxicity is generated, sufficient to give satisfactory control of weed-seed germination in the surface layers of the soil1. The toxic compound arising from it has been assumed to be 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).
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King, L. J., Lambrecht, J. A., and Finn, T. P., Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst., 16, (4), 191 (1950).
Audus, L. J., Plant and Soil, 3, (2), 170 (1951).
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AUDUS, L. Fate of Sodium 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy-ethyl-sulphate in the Soil. Nature 170, 886–887 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170886b0
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