Exam 3 Flashcards

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What is an example of biological weed control?

A

Using the thistle head weevil to control Musk (Nodding) Thistle

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How does the thistle head weevil control musk (nodding) thistle?

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  • lays its eggs in the head of the thistle

- larvae hatch and feed on the thistle head

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What is the concern with chemical weed control?

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Resistance building up in weeds to herbicides.

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What are the “goals” of chemical weed control?

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1- Permit weed control where tillage isn’t possible.
2- Allow for no-till farming
3- reduce # of tillage operations required
4- reduce amount of labor related to weed control
5- controls weeds that were previously difficult and costly to control
6- allow for more flexibility for crop management

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What is an example previous practice that chemical control has allowed us to replace because of its costliness and difficulty?

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Clean fallowing

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What are some of the issues with chemical weed control? (5)

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  • Kills non-target plants (via drift, runoff, etc.)
  • harms animals indirectly ( via algae)
  • Poor public reception
  • perception by some that herbicide can resolve all weed issues
  • problems caused improper selection, storage, handling, and application.
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What plant was found to be resistant to 4 classes of herbicide across the state of Missouri?

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Water Hemp

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What herbicides were predominantly used between 1900-1940?

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Inorganic Herbicides

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What is the example family of herbicides used between 1900-1940?

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Chlorates

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What herbicides were predominantly used between 1940-1980?

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Organic Herbicides

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What herbicides were predominantly used between 1980-1995?

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Selective Post-Emergent Herbicides

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What herbicides were predominantly used between 1995-Present?

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Trangenic crops with herbicide tolerance

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What is an example “family/brand” of the herbicides used between 95-present?

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Roundup Ready Beans/Corn

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What does 2,4-D control? What is significant about this?

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  • Broadleaf plant species

- Was the 1st to provide complete control of creeping perennial broadleafs

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How does 2,4-D control weeds so effectively?

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It is translocated throughout the plant

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What is the #1 herbicide for weed control in corn?

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Atrazine

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What was significant about Paraquat? How toxic is it?

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  • allowed for no-till practices to become common
  • 1st non selective kill-all herbicide
  • very toxic
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What does glyphosate control?

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-perennial grasses and perennial broadleafs

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What is the max amount of Atrazine app. allowed on soils with 30% residue on surface?

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2lbs/Ac

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What is Karst Terrain?

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Areas that are underlain by limestone that have been opened up by water flow so that sinkholes, caves, and channels are common topographic features.

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What are the distance restrictions with Atrazine for these features:

  • wells and sinkholes?
  • streams or rivers?
  • lakes or resiovors?
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  • 50ft
  • 66ft
  • 200ft`
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Why were 2,4,5-T and Silvex removed from the US market? What is significant about these herbicides?

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Because they contained trace amounts of vioxin which is a carinogenic compound.
Were used as agent orange in vietnam.

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What is an example family of post-emergence herbicides?

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sulfonylurea herbicides

24
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(T/F) The total amount of herbicides applied annually have increased sinced 1982

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What are the 4 ways herbicides are named?
- Chemical Name - Biological Active Ingredient - Common Name - Trade Name
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Example of chem name, active ingredient, common name, and trade name?
chem name: N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine active ingredient: isopropylamine salt common name: Glyphosate trade name: Roundup-ultra
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What are the 2 types of plant responses? Examples of each?
selective ex- atrazine (corn is tolerant, pigweeds are not) non-selective ex- glyphosate (kills most plants)
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What are the 2 types of applications? Example of each.
-soil applications Ex- atrazine -foliar applications Ex- Glyphosate
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What are the 4 classes of length of persistence? What do they each mean? What is an example of (r) and (hp)?
-no residual: doesn't hurt other crops -residual: will kill/injure germinating seedlings for relatively short period of time. Ex- Scepter (53 days) -persistent: can harm crops planted in rotation after treated crop is harvested. -highly persistent: harms crops planted during 2nd season after original crop is harvested. Ex-Lightning (40 months)
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What are 3 different coverage methods?
- broadcast - banded - spot-spraying
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What are 4 methods of spraying (time-wise)?
- early preplant - preplant - preemergence - postemergence
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What are the 4 types of post emergence spraying (time wise)?
- early postemergence - late postemergence - directed postemergence - layby application
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What were the 2 methods of soil applications?
- surface applied | - preplant incorporated
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What are the 4 ways chems are distributed through plants?
- symplastic translocation (phloem translocation) - apoplastic translocation (xylem translocation) - contact (no translocation) - modes of action (cover later)
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What are the 3 herbicide families named?
- Sulfonylurea - Triazine - Other ones
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What is vapor drift? What herb. has this really been an issue with lately?
Herb. hits target, then some of it vaporizes and moves with the wind. -Dicamba
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What is the issue that has been causing dicamba problems? Explain it.
Air Inversion- warm and cool air flip causing sideway wind
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Who labels Herbs in US?
EPA
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Can each state select its legal herbs?
Yes
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What is hazard formula?
Hazard=toxicity * exposure
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What is tolerance level?
max amount (dosage) of herb. allowed in crop
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How is toxicity measured?
LD50
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What is LD50?
amount of dose required to kill half of test pop.
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How is LD figured?
mg of chemcal/kg of body wt.
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(T/F)Once EPA approves registration, it is a legal document?
True
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What is FIFRA? What's it do?
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act | Also requires labelling of herbicides
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(T/F) If a product is pasture labelled, you can assume it is good for all plants found in pastures ( including clovers)?
True
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Will herbicides be specifically labelled by livestock type such as Horse?
No, will only say livestock.