Leaf surface deposition

The material to be filtered is fed into the vessel under pressure, and separation takes place with the solids being deposited on the leaf surface, and the liquid passing through the drainage system and out of the filter. Cycle times are determined by pressure, cake capacity or batch quantity. Where particularly fine solids must be removed, a layer of precoat material may be deposited on the leaves prior to filtration, using diatomaceous earth, Perlite, or other suitable precoat materials. 

Symptoms Black or brown sootlike deposits on upper leaf surfaces and other plant parts. Plants may also be infested with sap-feeding pests such as aphids, whiteflies, scale, or mealybugs. 

An analytical procedure has been proposed for precise uranium isotope ratio measurements in a thin uranium layer on a biological surface by LA-ICP-MS using a cooled laser ablation chamber.125 One drop of uranium isotope standard reference materials NIST, 350, NIST 930, of our isotopic laboratory standard CCLU 500 (20p.l, U concentration 200 ng 1) and of uranium with natural isotopic pattern were deposited on the leaf surface and analyzed by LA-ICP-MS at well defined laser crater diameters of 10, 15, 25 and 50 p.m. A precision for measurements of isotope ratios in the range of 2.1-1.0% for 235U/238U in selected isotope standards was observed whereby the precision and the accuracy of isotope ratios compared to the non-cooled laser ablation chamber was improved.125... 

Volatilization rates of chemicals from surface deposits are directly proportional to their relative vapor pressures. The actual rates of loss, or the proportionality constant relating vapor pressure to volatilization rates, are dependent upon external conditions that affect movement away from the evaporating surface, such as wind speed and air turbulence. Initial volatilization of pesticide deposits from leaf surfaces and grass or litter on the forest floor are examples of this type of volatilization. Factors controlling volatilization rates from plants was discussed by Taylor (1). 

C below the melting point. The nature and the size of the exposed surface of the deposit on the leaf surface can be modified by spray adjuvants such as wetting agents, thickeners or particulating agents. The deposited pesticide may also interact with the target surface, with leaf exudates or with the polymeric wax-like surface of cutin. It may also physically penetrate the surface of the leaf. 

Deposits on leaf surfaces. Considerable ingenuity has been directed toward formulating pesticides so that they will adhere to leaves, and aerial spraying (especially from conventional aircraft) generally results in a large proportion of the spray remaining on the sunlit upper surfaces of the canopy. Comparatively little spray reaches the forest floor (2). 

T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid) ester formulation to a complex mixture of successively less-chlorinated phenoxyacetic esters, and Que Hee, et al. (16) reported a similar dechlorination of 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). The toxic 2,4,5-T impurity, TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin), was dechlo-rinated in a herbicide ester deposit on a sunlit leaf surface within a few hours (Figure 5) (17). 

Figure 5. Sunlight degradation products of TCDD in mixed butyl esters of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T as a deposit on a leaf surface ...

Figure 13.7 Illustration of processes influencing the performance of a crop protection product. Spray droplets impact a leaf surface, and create a foliar deposit from which a pesticidal agent can move into the leaf or contact the fungal or insect pest. From Rodham [865], Copyright 2000, Elsevier.

Evidence was obtained recently that pesticide vapors may enter the air by still another mechanism, involving plant circulation and water loss (57). Rice plants were found to efficiently transport root-zone applied systemic carbamate insecticides via xylem flow to the leaves, eventually to the leaf surface by the processes of guttation and/or stomatal transpiration, and finally to the air by surface volatilization. Results from a model chamber showed that 4.2, 5.8, and 5.7% of the residues of carbaryl, carbofuran, and aldicarb, respectively, present in rice plants after root soaking vaporized within 10 days after treatment. The major process was evaporation of surface residues deposited by guttation fluid. 

It is therefore reasonable to assume that the evaporation rate of residue is proportional to the gross area of spray deposit for a pesticide remaining exposed on a leaf surface. The pesticide will be lost at a constant rate, under constant conditions of ventilation, until the contaminated area decreases significantly. 

A major reason for the contradictions in this early literature is that in all experiments both root uptake/translocation as well as volatilization from soil followed by deposition to the leaf surface were possible. The authors used... 

They could remove the coat of waxes on the leaf surface, and so then the sea salt could penetrate into the cells and could kill the cells. I just wanted to know if this has been cleared in your country, or is it still in discussion The other point you mentioned quite rightly that NH 4 is no really neutralizing agent. In the soil it will be transformed into NO i, and nitric acid will contribute to acidity. The measurement of total acidity by just titrating the amount of acidity is a questionable thing. You have to determine the species of N0 3 and NH" 4 in the precipitation and add it to the acidity, so you have to do more than titrating... Well, I have a question what happens on the surface of leaves or other material in dry deposition of acids Maybe if you have a coat of SO2 which is then transformed into sulphuric acid, will this sulphuric acid be a permanent coat on the leaves and can nitric acid then be added to this ... 

FIGURE 4-31 Dry deposition by absorption. Ca and Cs are chemical concentrations in bulk air and at the leaf surface, respectively. The chemical flux is determined in part by the thickness of the stagnant air boundary layer (shown for simplicity as having uniform thickness). This model is essentially the same as that applied to gas exchange between air and water for the case in which transport resistance is dominated by the air side (Section 2.3). 

Table 3.8 summarises the deposition of spray on soil surface underneath apple trees in orchards. When spraying apple trees in full leaf, spray deposition on the ground is on average 25% (18-35%), (Heer and Schut, 1986 Crum and de Heer, 1991 Porskamp et al., 1994a, 1994/ Ganzelmeier and Osteroth, 1994 Heijne et al., 1995). Spray deposition on the soil is not significantly different between axial and cross-flow sprayers, but tunnel sprayers (Zande et al., 1998) can decrease soil deposition by 50%. When trees are not in leaf, spray... 

Table 3.9 Spray deposition (% dose) on orchard-tree leaf surface (apple) for different periods during the growing season, and different spray techniques...

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