Alachlor

Alachlor is an acetanilide herbicide. It inhibits the growth of Avena seedlings when applied to the root medium by subirrigation at concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 25 mM. Alachlor (3.4 kg/hectare) reduces wooly cupgrass (E. villosa) emergence by 85% in corn crop fields. It also reduces emergence of broadleaf signalgrass (B. platyphylla) in peanut crops when applied at planting. Alachlor (>1 µg/ml) induces sister chromatid exchanges and chromosome aberrations in isolated human peripheral blood lymphocytes. In vivo, alachlor (126 mg/kg per day) induces olfactory mucosal tumor formation in rats....