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Record W4407312903 · doi:10.5539/jas.v17n3p28

White Bean Desiccation With Caprylic Plus Capric Acid

2025· article· en· W4407312903 on OpenAlexfundvenueaboutno aff
Nader Soltani, Christian Willemse, Peter H. Sikkema

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Agricultural Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant Surface Properties and Treatments
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMinistry of Agriculture, Food and Rural AffairsOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
KeywordsCapric AcidCaprylic acidDesiccationWhite (mutation)ChemistryFood scienceBotanyBiologyBiochemistryFatty acid

Abstract

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There is no published information on the efficacy of caprylic plus capric acid for desiccating weeds and white bean under Ontario environmental conditions. Five field experiments were conducted from 2021 to 2023 in southwestern Ontario, Canada to evaluate the effectiveness of caprylic plus capric acid, applied at 3, 6, and 9% v/v and other commonly used desiccant herbicides in white bean. White bean desiccation levels were generally similar to the nontreated control at most evaluation points, except at 6 and 9 days after application (DAA) with the application of caprylic plus capric acid at 6 and 9% v/v which resulted in up to 8 and 6% greater white bean desiccation, respectively, compared to the nontreated control. Caprylic plus capric acid at 3, 6, and 9% v/v desiccated green pigweed 0-51%, common lambsquarters 0-16%, common ragweed 4-21%, green foxtail 10-53%, and barnyardgrass 7-37%. Glyphosate, saflufenacil, and glyphosate + saflufenacil desiccated white bean by 80-99%, 81-100%, and 82-100%, respectively, at 2, 6, 9, and 15 DAA. These levels were generally similar to the nontreated control, except at 2 DAA, when white bean was desiccated 4% greater with glyphosate + saflufenacil than the nontreated control. At 15 DAA, glyphosate desiccated green pigweed 100%, common lambsquarters 100%, common ragweed 70%, green foxtail 96%, and barnyardgrass 82%; saflufenacil desiccated green pigweed 100%, common lambsquarters 69%, common ragweed 96%, green foxtail 41%; and barnyardgrass 28%; and glyphosate + saflufenacil desiccated green pigweed 100%, common lambsquarters 100%; common ragweed 99%, green foxtail 98%, and barnyardgrass 93%. Based on these findings, caprylic plus capric acid has limited potential as a desiccant for white bean.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score0.149

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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