BCPC Knowledge Bank

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British Insecticide and Fungicide Conference 1973 Vol II Session 6B-7B...bring precision to curative spraying with organo-mercury compounds. With increasing age the leaves of the maturing Bramley’s Seedling became less tolerant of the organo-mercury compounds. To be effective, curative sprays...pdfview PDF
Decision Making in the Practice of Crop Protection – Session 1-2...complexity of the problemsinvolved. An important feature of the Symposium was a Conversazione at which a variety of computer-based aids to decision making were demonstrated. It has not been possible...pdfview PDF
Healthy Planting Material – Session 4-6...infection during subsequent propagation. Measures to reduce the risks are taken at three stages. Pre-planting measures comprise soil sampling of sites, the use of loamless or sterilised composts for small-scale...pdfview PDF
Progress and Prospects in Insect Control – Session 3-5...short term with our present level of knowledge it seems likely that commercial production of mycoinsecticides is going to be restricted to small commercial companies operating in specialist areas (Jutsum,...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol I p229-345...2). Tests on commercial sprayers Commercial ground crop sprayers in Canada and the U.K. were fitted with calibrated pressure gauges at a number of points in the hydraulic system The...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol I p345-460...the United Kingdom were evaluated as single and split-treatment applications. This was followed by two experiments comparing all possible combinations of four pre- and four post-emergence treatments. METHOD AND MATERIALS...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol II p461-524...this could not always be removed soon enough or completely enough to be sure that no competition had occurred: there were indications for example that grass weeds competed with the...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol II p581-619...kg a.i./ha in combinatior with 9.0 kg a.i./ha of TCA gave excellent season-long control of Alopecur us myosuroides (table 1), Oryzalin alone compared favourably wi th the Soil incorporated herbicide...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol II p751-856...only partial control of many of the large-seeded broadleaved weeds, such as Ipomoea spp. In these cases, combinations of AC 92,553 with metribuzin and other compounds have usually im- proved...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 1974 – Vol III p1015-1108...source of disease inoculum as well as being competitive weeds. Control of the problem commences with more timely and efficient harvesting followed by judicial post-harvest cultivation treatments and, where possible,...pdfview PDF
Amino acid biosynthesis inhibitors in crop protection and pharma chemistry – Session 1-3...or pathways y herbicidal action. For more comprehensive details of the biochemistry s in plants, the reader is recommended to consult Miflin (1980) or Lea et al. (1985). In addition...pdfview PDF
Amino acid biosynthesis inhibitors in crop protection and pharma chemistry – Session 4-6...dissociating enzyme-(1-aminoethyl)phosphonate complexes. Biochemistry 25, 3275-3282. Chakravarty, P. K.; Greenlee, W J.; Parsons. W. H.; Patchett, A. A.; Combs, P.; Roth, A.; Busch, R. D.; Mellin, T. N. (1989) 3-Amino-2-...pdfview PDF
Opportunities for Molecular Biology in Crop Production – Posters...classes of compound,with quite different modes of action, are being studied at the biochemical and molecular level, with a viewto exploiting them for the protection of crop plants. Brassicas, and...pdfview PDF
BCPC Pests and Diseases 1981 – Vol I p216-306...the highest yielding component, only five were between the lowest and mid component value, and none yielded less than the lowest yielding component. Of the 30 two-way mixture comparisons, 11...pdfview PDF
BCPC Weeds Conference 2001 Vol2 Session 10C...on maize as compared to the maize monocropplots (P < 0.05). However, significantly greater suppression of S. hermonthica was provided by D. uncinatum and the combined D. uncinatum and nitrogen...pdfview PDF
Diagnostics in Crop Production – Session 1...aids and, in the longer term there will probably be a decoupling of aid from production in someradical reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. In parallel with this the agreements...pdfview PDF
Diagnostics in Crop Production – Session 5...the antibody with the target. In practice, considerable expertise is still required for even comparatively simple systems; for haptens, the situation is more complex since our understanding of antibody-target interactions...pdfview PDF
The Worlds Worst Weeds – In a Changing Climate...high and low temperatures, whichinfluence the distribution and competitiveness ofweeds. Global warming seemsincreasingly likely to result from the increase of “greenhouse gases,” of which carbon dioxide is a major component...pdfview PDF
The Worlds Worst Weeds – Parasitic Weeds...are compromised by the non-uniformity of natural infestations and by the difficulty of creating parasite-free areas with which to make a comparison. Published estimates include 21% annual loss of sorghum...pdfview PDF
Pesticide Movement to Water – Posters to p268...means that for some compoundsfirst-order kinetics provide a gross over-simplification. This paper considers a number of approaches utilising a variety of curve-fitting mathematical programs, including compartmental models. Results show that,...pdfview PDF

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