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defoliant a chemical used to remove the leaves from plants to facilitate mechanical harvesting. The early defoliants, especially arsenical compounds, presented serious hazards if the plants were later fed to livestock or if the spray drifted to nearby pasture paddocks. Modern defoliants are nontoxic if used according to manufacturer's recommendations. See mcpa, tributyl triphosphorotrithioite, thidiazuron. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Besides multiple insecticide applications, we use boll openers and defoliants ahead of harvest. 2003b), and statistical significant risk was observed for fumigants and defoliants and AD (Tyas et al. Since cotton farming is particularly pesticide and chemical intensive, and the conventional farming of it requires applications of fungicides to the seedlings all the way through to defoliants prior to harvesting, pesticides" and chemicals are used on conventional cotton that are not used on other conventionally grown crops. |
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