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RECORD NUMBER: 14 OF 19Main Title | Photochemical Oxidents in Yonkers, New York: Effects on Yield of Bean and Tomato. | |||||||||||
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Author | MacLean, D. C. ; Schneider, R. E. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1976 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA-600/J-76-113; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB84-102391 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Toxicity ; Bean plants ; Tomato plants ; Air pollution ; Field tests ; Exposure ; Controlled atmospheres ; Ozone ; Nitrogen organic compounds ; Peroxy organic compounds ; Monitoring ; Yield ; Weight(Mass) ; Reprints ; Photochemical oxidants ; Peroxyacetyl nitrate ; Lycopersicon esculentum ; Phaseolus vulgaris | |||||||||||
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Collation | 6p | |||||||||||
Abstract | Field plots of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Tendergreen) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum cv. Fireball 861 VR) were enclosed in chambers and exposed for 43 or 99 days, respectively, to ambient air or to air from which 60 to 70% of the ambient photochemical oxidants were excluded. Comparisons between these treatments revealed that ambient oxidants at Yonkers, New York reduced the fresh weight yield of tomato by at least 33%, and in bean, the weight and number of marketable pods were reduced by 26 and 24%, respectively. |