This manuscript describes how herbicide metabolism rates can be effectively quantified with excised leaves from a dicot weed, thereby reducing variability and removing any possible confounding effects of herbicide uptake or translocation typically observed in whole-plant assays.
Ma, R., Skelton, J. J., Riechers, D. E. Measuring Rates of Herbicide Metabolism in Dicot Weeds with an Excised Leaf Assay. J. Vis. Exp. (103), e53236, doi:10.3791/53236 (2015).