Tob. Sci., 1971, 15-28, p. 87-89, ISSN.0082-4623
Regional tests with contact and systematic tobacco sucker control agents. III. Fire-cured tobacco
Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Agronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Department of Agronomy, Southwest Virginia Research Station, Glade Spring, Virginia USA; Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland USA; Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Agronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky USA
Field experiments were conducted in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1956-1968 to evaluate the effects of chemical agents for sucker control on fire-cured tobacco. Maleic hydrazide, a systemic type agent, and three contact type agents, methyl caprate, a...