<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Fatty compounds including lauryI alcohol and methyl laurate and Tween 20 surfactant (polyoxyethylene [20] sorbitan monolaurate) and Tween 80 surfactant (polyoxyethylene [20] sorbitan monooleate) with 14C-labelling at various positions were used as suckering agents for Maryland, Burley, and bright tobacco types (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and their residues on the tobacco determined. An average residue of 1.61 ppm of fatty compounds and 1.0 ppm of surfactants were found. The combined totaI of 2.6 ppm residue due to these suckering agents is far below an earlier preliminary test of 4.8 ppm of residue in comparison with 7.000 ppm naturally occurring fatty compounds in tobacco.</p></abstract>

Fatty compounds including lauryI alcohol and methyl laurate and Tween 20 surfactant (polyoxyethylene [20] sorbitan monolaurate) and Tween 80 surfactant (polyoxyethylene [20] sorbitan monooleate) with 14C-labelling at various positions were used as suckering agents for Maryland, Burley, and bright tobacco types (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and their residues on the tobacco determined. An average residue of 1.61 ppm of fatty compounds and 1.0 ppm of surfactants were found. The combined totaI of 2.6 ppm residue due to these suckering agents is far below an earlier preliminary test of 4.8 ppm of residue in comparison with 7.000 ppm naturally occurring fatty compounds in tobacco.

Residue Levels of Fatty Compounds and Surfactants as Suckering Agents on Tobacco

Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Northeastern Region, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A.,

Tobacco Research Station, Southern Region, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Oxford, North Carolina, U.S.A.

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Fatty compounds including lauryI alcohol and methyl laurate and Tween 20 surfactant (polyoxyethylene [20] sorbitan monolaurate) and Tween 80 surfactant...

Residue Levels of Fatty Compounds and Surfactants as Suckering Agents on Tobacco

Published Online: Aug 14, 2014

Page range: 241 - 245

Received: May 05, 1975

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cttr-2013-0386

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