Revista Brasileira De Herbicidas 2005; 4(3): 59-67

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SELECTIVITY OF HERBICIDES FOR Stylosanthes capitata and S. macrocephala

DOI: 10.7824/rbh.v4i3.37

Aiming to study the herbicides selectivity at pre-emergence: diclosulam (35,28 g a.i./ha), flumetsulan (120 g a.i./ha), flumioxazin (50 g a.i./ha), imazaquin (30 g a.i./ha), smetolachlor (1.920 g a.i./ha) and sulfentrazone (600 g a.i./ha) and post-emergence: flumioxazin (25 g a.i./ha), 2,4-D (840 g a.i./ha), 2,4-D (536 g a.i./ha), bentazon/acifluorfensodium (450 g a.i./ha), acifluorfen-sodium/bentazon (240 g a.i./ha), chlorimuron-ethy (l17,5 g a.i./ha), fomesafen (250 g a.i./ha), imazethapyr (100 g a.i./ha) and lactofen (168 g a.i./ha), in Stylosanthes capitata and S. macrocephala, field trails were carried out in Quartzpsament soil and Haplorthox soil in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. The pre-emergence trials were installed in the two soil types and for each one of the legume species and, to the post-emergence, the trails were only installed in Haplorthox soil and for both species of the forage legume. The evaluations were phytotoxicity of the herbicides through visual assessment at 10, 20, 30 and 40 days after the application of the treatments (DAT), and 15 and 40 DAT to the post-emergent one. In Haplorthox soil, it was selected the products imazaquin and diclosulam. In Quartzpsament soil, none of the applied herbicides was selective for the plants. To the post-emergent ones, the herbicides tested did not provide high levels of phytotoxicity and the ones that more affected the plants were 2,4-D, flumioxazin, followed by chlorimuron-ethyl. The herbicides lactofen, imazethapyr, fomesafen, acifluorfensodium/bentazon and bentazon/acifluorfen-sodium, in post-emergence, showed promising results to control weeds in areas of Stylosanthes seed production.