Research Projects

Agronomic

·  Determination of ALS resistant ryegrass in Texas.

·  Effect of row spacing on weed control in peanuts.

Herbicide drift

·  Evaluation of particle deposition of three 2,4-D formulations.

·  Quantitation of particle drift and its effect on soybean and cotton yield.

Analytical Methodology

·  Storage stability of selected polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH’s) on solid-phase extraction disks.

·  Estimation of plant available clomazone and adsorption determinations of other herbicides using a double centrifuge apparatus.

·  Extraction of pesticides using Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE).

Water Quality

·  The effect of titanium dioxide beads on photocatalysis of picloram in water.

·  The effect of grass filter strips on herbicide and metabolite runoff.

·  Monitoring of atrazine, simazine, metolachlor, and alachlor in selected Texas watersheds.

Pesticide degradation and adsorption in soil

·  The effect of glyphosate on degradation of atrazine from soil.

·  Assessment of clomazone injury to rice as affected by soil properties.

·  Centrifugal adsorption of imazethapyr and clomazone to predict bioavailable herbicide.

Regional projects

·  S-271 - Solid-phase extraction techniques for pesticides in water samples.

·  W-82 - Reducing the potential for environmental contamination by pesticides and other organic chemicals.