Montmorillonite as an Effective Stimulator of Plant Development in Soil Contaminated with Metsulfuron-Methyl

Abstract

Currently, the widespread use of herbicides in agriculture creates a serious problem of further use of contaminated soils for growing various types of agricultural plants. Developing the research of aluminosilicates as detoxicants of herbicide residues contained in the soil, the effect of montmorillonite K-10 (MRT) on vegetative plants of spring rape and corn is studied in this work. It was shown that the introduction of MRT into the soil before sowing in low doses had a powerful stimulating effect on plant development, both in the presence of methsulfuron-methyl residues in the soil and in the absence of herbicide in the soil. The doses of the applied MRT were only 100–200 kg/ha, which created the prospect of widespread use of montmorillonite (bentonite) clays in crop production.