Everything about Picloram totally explained
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Picloram is a systemic herbicide used for general woody plant control, sold under the trade names
Tordon and
Grazon. It also controls a wide range of broad-leaved weeds, but most grasses are resistant. A
chlorinated derivative of
picolinic acid, picloram is in the
pyridine family of herbicides.
Picloram can be sprayed on foliage, injected into plants, applied to cut surfaces, or placed at the base of the plant where it'll leach to the roots. Once absorbed by the foliage, stem, or roots, picloram is transported throughout the plant.
During the Vietnam War, a mixture of picloram and
2,4-D, known as
Agent White, was sprayed by on plants that survived treatment with
Agent Orange (
2,4,5-T and 2,4-D).
Picloram is of moderate toxicity to the eyes and only mildly toxic on the skin. It doesn't adhere to soil and so may leach to groundwater, and has in fact been detected there. It is degraded in soil and water mainly by microbes. Picloram has very little tendency to accumulate in aquatic life.
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