Revista Brasileira De Herbicidas 2001; 2(3): 125-132
Control of Panicum maximum in sugar cane with preemergence herbicides
DOI: 10.7824/rbh.v2i3.361
The major problem with the sugar cane crop is weed competition, specially Panicum maximum Jacq., which is a very agressive plant. The trial was carried out at Usina São Carlos (a sugar will), in Jaboticabal-SP, during 1998/1999 aiming to study imazapyr and imazapic herbicides, sprayed alone in preemergence, or imazapic in mixture with pendimethalin, for P maximum control. The experimental design was a randomized block with nine treatments and four replications. The treatments were: controls (with and without weeds), imazapic (73.5 and 98 g/ha), imazapyr (122 and 147 g/ha): imazapic+pendimethalin (50+ 1000 and 60+ 1200 g/ha) and pendimethalin (1200 g/ha) at preemergence. The herbicides were applied with a manual sprayer, with constant pressure of 2.8 kg/crrf and jet nozzles with descontinuous deposition (DG11002), using 250 Ilha of the herbicide solution. The sugar-cane variety used was RB 72454. The best preemergence weed control was observed with imazapic+pendimethalim in ali treatments 126 days after application. The postemergence treatment cannot be used because they caused high crop toxicity. The herbicide mixture (imazapic+pendimethalin) showed low efficiency in ali tested treatments.
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