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A study of bromacil uptake by excised barley (Hordeum vulgare) roots was used to evaluate this procedure as a tool to learn the uptake characteristics of toxic organic chemicals. Bromacil uptake was shown to be a passive process with an uptake rate (at 0.8 mg l-1) of 0.64 μg bromacil g-1 fresh root hr-1. A Q10 for the process was determined to be 1.5 and living roots were required for bromacil uptake. This procedure was judged to be a quick and inexpensive method to screen plant uptake of toxic chemicals.
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Wickliff, C., McFarlane, J.C. & Ratsch, H. Uptake of bromacil by isolated barley roots. Environ Monit Assess 4, 43–51 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047620
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