The Toxic Action of Herbicides

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Abstract
So far most of the advances in selective weedkilling have been made by rule-of-thumb methods, and very little attention has been paid to fundamental aspects of the subject. We do not understand how these chemicals kill plants, and the biochemist now tends to believe that our best hope of making fresh discoveries is to learn very much more about normal life processes in the plant and the precise way in which toxicants affect them.