INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESIDUAL HERBICIDES AT LOW CONCENTRATIONS*

Summary. Immediate and residual phytotoxicity of binary combinations of several residual soil-applied herbicides at 0·1 and 0·5 ppm was compared to the expected response calculated by Colby's formula. In one experiment diuron was combined with diphenamid, fluometuron, noruron, prometryne or simazine, and in another experiment trifluralin was combined with diuron or dichlobenil. The observed phytotoxicity of most combinations was only slightly different from the expected response. One combination, diuron 0·5 ppm + fluometuron 0·5 ppm, affected mustard significantly more than expected and this synergistic interaction remained appreciable after incubation of 2 months. Interactions entre les herbicides persistants a faible concentration     

EVALUATION OF HERBICIDE PERSISTENCE IN SOIL*

Summary. The persistence of ten herbicides in soil was tested in the glasshouse over a 5–month period, using an oat bioassay. Simazine and diuron were highly persistent, atrazine persistent, fluometuron, trifluralin, bromacil and noruron moderately persistent, and pyrazon, prometryne and ametryne of short persistence. Six of these herbicides were also included in a field experiment consisting of logarithmically sprayed strips on which oats were sown at ten intervals of 1 month; changes of herbicidal activity with time were evaluated by measuring the length of the strip showing herbicidal injury. Results corroborate those of the glasshouse experiments except for trifluralin which was more persistent in the field. Disappearance curves were generally sigmoidal. The more persistent compounds showed a long period of slow disappearance followed by rapid disappearance.     

Herbicide options for weed control in papaya

This paper reviews the literature on weeds and weed control in papaya. There is limited research on this topic, and nearly all of the research focuses on herbicides. Effective use of paraquat and glyphosate in papaya is dependent on avoidance of spray contact to green bark and foliage. Pre-emergence herbicide tolerance is dependent on papaya age, size and maturity, and soil type. Only one herbicide, oryzalin is shown to be tolerated by papaya immediately after transplanting. Herbicides such as diuron and oxyfluorfen with a broader spectrum of weed control generally injure young papaya, however they can be effectively used if the initial application of these herbicides is delayed until papaya attains certain size or maturity indices. There is a need for further research on weeds and weed control to improve the efficiency of papaya production     

Survey of herbicide residues in soil and wells in three citrus orchards in Valencia, Spain

Soil samples taken in summer 1989 and winter 1990 at different depths from three citrus orchards of the Valencia region (Spain) with a long history of residual herbicide treatments were analysed with bioassays and chromatographic procedures. The herbicides involved were atrazine, bromacil, diuron, simazine, terbuthylazine, terbumetone, terbutryn and trifluralin. Water samples from wells in the orchards were also analysed. The concentrations of the herbicides were very low, often below the limit of determination, and were always highest in the upper layers of soil. After a very unusual period of heavy rain, small quantities of some chemicals were found in the well water. The conclusion was that in these orchards the herbicides applied at currently used rates are unlikely to accumulate in any layers of the soil.     

Soil-incorporated trifluralin protects cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) from root-absorbed herbicides

Mechanical incorporation of a tank mixture of trifluralin in combination with fluometuron, diuron or prometryne in the soil to a depth of 10 cm protected emerging cotton from the damage caused by these herbicides in the absence of trifluralin. The incorporated tank mixtures, which were activated by sprinkler irrigation, controlled weeds which were tolerant to trifluralin alone. The different reaction of weeds and cotton to the soil-incorporated herbicide mixtures corresponded to the reaction of their root systems to trifluralin. Weeds whose root system was shortened significantly by trifluralin were sensitive to the tank-mixed, soil-incorporated herbicides. La trifluraline incorporée au sol protége le coton (Gossypium hirsutum) des herbicides à absorption racinaire L'incorporation mécanique de mélanges de trifluraline avec du fluométuron, du diuron ou de la prométryne, à des profondeurs de sol 10 cm, protégeait le coton au moment de la levée contre les dommages occasionnés par ces herbicides en l'absence de trifluraline. Les mélanges incorporés, quiétaient activés par irrigation par aspersion, détruisaient les mauvaises herbes qui étaient tolérantes à la trifluraline seule. La réaction différente des mauvaises herbes et du coton aux mélanges d'herbicides incorporés correspondait à la réaction de leur système racinaire à la trifluraline. Les mauvaises herbes dont le systéme racinaire était raccourci par la trifluraline étaient sensibles aux mélanges d'herbicides incorporés. Schutz der Baumwolle (Gossypium hirsutum) vor wurzelabsorbierten Herbiziden durch eingearbeitetes Trifluralin Nach Einarbeitung von Tankmischungen von Trifluralin mit Fluometuron, Diuron oder Prometryn bis in 10 cm Bodentiefe blieben Baumwoll-Keimpflanzen von den sonst von diesen 3 letzgenannten Herbiziden verursachten Schaden frei, Mittels der Tankmischungen ließen sich gegenuber Trifluralin allein unempfindliche Unkrauter bekampfen. Die unterschiedliche Reaktion der Unkrauter und der Baumwolle auf die eingearbeiteten Herbizidmischungen entsprachen der Reaktion ihrer Wurzeln auf Trifluralin. Soweit die Entwicklung von Unkrautwurzeln durch Trifluralin signifikant gehemmt wurde, waren diese Arten gegenuber den eingearbeitenen Tankmischungen empfindlich.     

THE ADSORPTION OF FOUR HERBICIDES BY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ORGANIC MATTER AND A BENTONITE CLAY*

Summary. A bioassay was used to study, adsorption of prometryne, simazine, linuron and pyrazon by fibrous peat, sphagnum moss, muck soil and bentonite as 1 % mixtures with quartz sand. Of these bentonite caused least reduction in bioactivity, and sphagnum moss reduced it only slightly more. Fibrous peat and muck soil were the most adsorptive. Prometryne, simazine and pyrazon were more highly adsorbed by fibrous peat than by muck soil, while for linuron the opposite occurred. Fibrous peat was approximately three, seven, thirteen and three times more adsorptive than bentonite for pyrazon, linuron, prometryne and simazine, respectively, while for muck soil the corresponding values were two, fourteen, seven and two. Studies with prometryne and five different soils indicated that percentage organic matter, cation-exchange capacity and specific surface area were all highly correlated with adsorption.     

Reduced rates of residual and post-emergence herbicides for weed control in vineyards

In 1997 and 1998, five field studies were conducted at four Portuguese wine‐growing regions in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the chemical control of vineyard weeds under Mediterranean conditions using either reduced doses of residual herbicides or only foliar herbicides. Amitrole (3440 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + glyphosate mono‐ammonium salt (1720 + 900 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole (3400 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + diuron (2580 + 1500 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + simazine (2580 + 1500 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + terbuthylazine (2580 + 1500 g a.i. ha^?1) and amitrole + diuron + simazine (2580 + 1300 + 1400 g a.i. ha^?1) were assayed and compared with the following reference herbicides: glyphosate isopropylamine salt (1800 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + diuron (2520 + 1680 g a.i. ha^?1), diuron + glyphosate + terbuthylazine (1275 + 900 + 1425 g a.i. ha^?1), amitrole + simazine (1900 + 3900 g a.i. ha^?1) and glyphosate + simazine (800 + 2200 g a.i. ha^?1). The herbicides were applied during late winter. The results indicated that good control was achieved by the application of foliar herbicides alone or of reduced rates of a mixture of residual herbicides with foliar herbicides for at least 2 months. Three months after application, the efficacy of post‐emergence herbicides and lower rates of residual herbicides decreased significantly in clay soils and under heavy rainfall conditions. Convolvulus arvensis– a weed that is becoming increasingly significant in Portuguese vineyards – was poorly controlled, even when glyphosate was used. Despite this, it can be assumed that in those regions in which the trials were conducted, it is possible to employ weed control strategies that entail the elimination or a reduction in the rate of residual herbicides.     

The Principles and Practice of Weed Control for Notillage Soyabean in Southern Brazil Using the Bipyridyl Herbicides

Abstract

An ICI survey of the arable area of southern Brazil in 1971 confirmed the urgent need for some form of conservation tillage system for soyabean wheat primarily to control soil erosion. A practical system of no-tillage soyabean was developed for N. Parana, with weed control based on careful crop residue management and sprays of paraquat mixed with either linuron or metribuzin. The marked superiority of these mixtures over paraquat alone for the control of vigorous annual grasses was noted. This effect is, in part attributed to the capacity of metribuzin and linuron (along with other herbicides) to inhibit photosynthesis, thereby facilitating the translocation of paraquat. Where residual herbicides are not used, diuron at low rates in suitable formulation proved the best additive for paraquat. Problem broadleaved weeds are controlled by adding 2, 4-D to paraquat. Temperature, rainfall, the presence of fallows and the interval between harvest and the next planting, all affect pre-plant weed control for no-till soyabean. A key issue is to prevent excessive stands of weeds. Control within the crop can be provided by shielded, directed sprays of paraquat for which tractor mounted sprayers were developed. Recent discoveries of pre- and post-emergence selective herbicides provide improved and alternative in-crop weed control options. Crop diversification and further general no-till research show promise of further rational, chemical and cultural methods of weed control.     

稻田眼子菜的生物学特性与化学防除

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INTERAKTION ZWISCHEN EINIGEN HERBIZIDEN BEI VORSAAT- UND VORAUFLAUFBEHANDLUNG IN ZUCKERRÜBEN

Summary. In a field trial of modified logarithmic design, NaTCA and dalapon were applied pre-sowing and pyrazon and lenacil were applied pre-emergence. There were five rates of application and each pair of herbicides (NaTCA + pyrazon, dalapon + pyrazon, NaTCA + lenacil and dalapon-|- lenacil) had thirty-six variants. NaTCA and dalapon alone were found to have some effect on the dicotyledons. Increasing rates of NaTCA and dalapon in combination with pyrazon or lenacil resulted in better weed control, but also had a slight phytotoxic effect on the beet. Because the susceptibility of beet did not increase to the same extent as that of the weeds with the combined treatments examined, the selectivity under the conditions of the experiment was at least not reduced.
L'interaction entre Us herbicides appliqués en pri-semis et en pri-levée dans la betterave à store     

Herbicides in Cotton—Combinations of Trifluralin with Other Products

Abstract

Results are given of a trial in which trifluralin, incorporated in the soil, at rates of 0.5 and 0.75 kg/ha, was combined with fluometuron at 1.6 kg/ha, and with prometryne at 1.0 kg/ha, both incorporated, pre- and post-em. and with noruron + MSMA (1.0:2.2) at 1.7 kg/ha post-em.

Best results were given by incorporated treatments of trifluralin + fluometuron (0.5 + 1.6) kg/ha, or by trifluralin incorporated at 0.5 or 0.75 kg/ha + fluometuron applied pre-em. at 1.6 kg/ha, or by trifluralin incorported at 0.75 kg/ha + prometryne applied pre-em. at 1.0 kg/ha.

It is recommended that noruron + MSMA (1.0:2.2) at 1.7 kg/ha be applied post-em. as a complementary treatment to trifluralin at 0.5 kg/ha in fields where Cyperus spp. are a problem.     

Chemical Control of Weeds in Cotton in the Sudan Gezira

Abstract

Early work on chemical weed control in the fallow towards the end of the Second World War is reviewed briefly. Attempts to use contact residual herbicides as pre-emergence applications in the early 1950s are also described.

Pre-sowing applications of residual herbicides were found more phytotoxic to cotton than pre-emergence applications. The closer the time of pre-sowing application to cotton sowing, the more effective was suppression of weeds competing with cotton.

Mechanical cultivations and particularly disc ploughing and rotovation to a depth of more than 15 cm were found more effective in the control of Cynodon dactylon than pre-sowing herbicide applications.

Fluometuron, noruron and prometryne were found very effective as pre-emergence herbicides. Optimum rates of application were found to be only 25-50% of rates recommended for the USA and other countries. Resistant weeds included Cyperus rotundus, Cynodon dactylon, and Rhyncosia memnonia.

A large-scale trial with fluometuron, covering 125 feddans at Wad el Nairn showed that yields obtained were equal to those with normal weeding. Costs of herbicide treatments were also comparable to costs of hand-weeding in a year of exceptionally low hand-weeding costs.     

Interactions between soil-applied herbicides in the roots of some legume species

The effects on plant growth of applying trifluralin or nitralin combination with simazine, atrazine, prometryne and linuron to the upper 5-cm root region of vetch (Vicia sativa L.), pea (Pisum sativum L.) and soybean (Glycine max) were investigated. Foliar injury due to herbicides of the second group was markedly reduced in each species by simultaneous treatment with trifluralin or nitralin both of which inhibited lateral root growth without affecting aerial plant growth or tap root extension growth. This inhibition of lateral root growth in roots treated with trifluralin or nitralin was associated with reduced uptake and subsequent transport to the foliage of ¹⁴C-labelled simazine in vetch and pea and ¹⁴C-labelled atrazine in soybean. This probably accounted for the reduction in simazine and atrazine phytotoxicity. In the presence of trifluralin or nitralin comparatively higher amounts of radioactivity were retained in the roots of pea and soybean and this reduced the amount of ¹⁴C available for transport to the foliage. This was not evident in vetch.     

TRIAZINE HERBICIDES ON MAIZE AND THEIR RESIDUAL EFFECTS ON FOLLOWING CROPS*

Summary. Pre-emergence application of 2–5 kg/ha (a.i.) of atrazine or simazine was the most effective treatment for control of broad-leaved weeds in maize. Other triazines injured maize at all rates tested. Among the crops following maize treated with atrazine or simazine at 2–5 kg/ha, sugar beet was injured whereas wheat, oats, vetch, onions and soybeans were not. Post-emergence application of triazine herbicides was not effective and did not increase maize yields significantly over those of the unweeded plots. Wheat, oats, vetch and sugar beet were injured when following maize treated with post-emergence sprays; onions and soybeans showed no visible injury except from atrazine or simazine at 5 kg/ha or more, and from mixtures of atrazine+prometryne or atrazine+ametryne at 12–5 kg/ha. Les triazines herbicides sur le mais et leurs arrière-effets sur les cultures suivantes     

Herbicide Performance in Rainfed Cabbage

Abstract

The effectiveness of butralin (2.0 and 4.0 kg a.i./ha pre-plant, 2.0 and 4.0 kg a.i./ha pre-em), chlorthal-dimethyl (10.0 and 12.0 kg a.i./ha pre-em), trifluralin (0.6 and 1.1 kg a.i./ha pre-plant) chloramben (2.0 kg a.i./ha pre-em) and nitrofen (2.0 kg a.i./ha pre-em) in controlling weeds in transplanted ‘Kono Cross’ cabbage and the influence of these treatments on the yield and quality of marketable heads and on the economics of weed control were evaluated in three replicated field experiments on River Estate loam soil in Trinidad during the wet seasons of 1976 and 1977. While herbicides did not affect the size of the cabbage plant population or the date to maturity of the crops, they reduced the cost of weed control by over 30% and increased the net returns relative to the clean-weeded control by over 9%. Butralin at 4.0 kg a.i./ha pre-plant and pre-em and the trifluralin treatments were superior to nitrofen which gave good weed control up to five weeks and higher yields than the clean-weeded control. Chlorthal-dimethyl gave encouraging results but caused slight, temporary stunting. The application of one of these treatments followed by one hand weeding at about four weeks should give full-season weed control and an acceptable yield of marketable heads with increased financial returns. Chloramben was the least effective herbicide tested and its use may not be justified under similar conditions to those of this study.     

The effect of some herbicides on vesicular-arbuscular endophyte abundance in the soil and on infection of host roots

The effect of the herbicides di-allate, diquat, diuron, paraquat, tri-allate and trifluralin, at a range of application rates from 0.5 to 32 times that recommended by the manufacturers, on vesicular-arbuscular (V-A) endophyte spore abundance in the soil and on infection of wheat roots was investigated in field and glasshouse experiments. Paraquat and diquat had no measurable effect on V-A endophyte spore abundance. There was a slight trend to lower V-A endophyte spore numbers at high rates of application of di-allate and tri-allate but no trend for the other chemicals. Infection intensity (% root length infected) declined at high rates of di-allate and led to lower mycorrhizal root weights. The phosphorus content of the shoots was also reduced by di-allate. High doses of di-allate, diuron, tri-allate and trifluralin reduced most parameters of plant growth more than mycorrhizal parameters. It is therefore concluded that at normal application rates these chemicals are unlikely to affect adversely endomycorrhiza formation or function.     

Studies on the rate of root growth of intact seedlings in a herbicide medium

Time-lapse cine photography was used to measure at 10-min intervals over 72 h the growth rate of pea and barley roots during separate exposure of the shoot + seed, root or entire seedling to eight herbicides. Times for commencement of root inhibition were determined at exposure to concentrations causing 50 % inhibition in 72 h. Root growth rate was normal in both species during shoot + seed treatment. Root inhibition commenced at the same time in a given species, when only the root or the entire seedling were treated with a particular herbicide. Except for dinoseb, times for commencement of root inhibition differed between pea and barley and between each herbicide. In pea these times ranged from 125 h with diuron to 23–7 h with diphenamid, and in barley from tl-1 h with diphenamid to 21–3 h with EPTC. Root growth ceased in only a few cases during the experimental period. EPTC, diphenamid, dinoseb, and trifluralin (on barley only) effectively inhibited root elongation, whereas diuron, simazine, paraquat, dalapon, and trifluralin (on pea only) had no direct effect on root growth at normal field rates of application. Etudes sur le taux de croissance des racines de plantules intactes dans un milieu herbicide Le cinéma avec prise de vue image par image, à des intervalles de 10 minutes, a été utilisé pour mesurer, pendant 72 heures, le taux de croissance des racines de pois et d'orge, soumises à l'action de huit herbicides, en traitant séparément soit l'ensemble pousse + semence, soit la racine, soit la plantule entière. On a déterminé les durées d'apparition de l'inhibition des racines, en utilisant des concentrations provoquant 50% d'inhibition en 72 heures. Le taux de croissance des racines fut normal chez les deux espèces pendant le traitement pousse + semence. L'inhibition des racines commença au méme moment chez une espèce donnée lorsque les racines seules ou la plante entière furent traitées avec un herbicide particulier. Les durées d'apparition de l'inhibition furent diffréntes pour le pois et pour l'orge et selon l'herbicide. Pour le pois, ces durées se situèrent entre 12,5 heures avec le diuron et 23,7 heures avec le diphénamide; pour l'orge, les durées furent comprises entre 11,1 heures avec le diphénamide et 21,3 heures pour l'EPTC. La croissance des racines ne cessa, durant la période expérimentale, que dans un petit nombre de cas. L'EPTC, le diphénamide, le dinosébe et la trifluraline inhibérent efficacement l'élongation des racines chez l'orge seulement, cependant que le diuron, la simazine, le paraquat, le dalapon et la trifiuraline n'eurent pas d'effet direct, chez le pois seulement, sur la croissance des racines aux doses normales d'appiication. Untersuchungen über das Wurzelwachstum von Keimpflanzen in einem Herbizidmedium Das Wachstum von Erbsen- und Gerstenwurzeln wurde über 72 Stunden in Abständen von 10 Minuten mit Hilfe der Zeitrafferphotographie gemessen, wobei jeweils Spross + Same, die Wurzel, Oder die ganze Keimpflanze, acht Herbi-ziden ausgesetzt war. Es wurde die Zeit bestimmt, die für eine 50%ige Hemmung des Wurzelwachstums während der 72 Stunden nötig war. Das Wurzelwachstum war bei Spross + Samen-Behandlung bei beiden Arten normal. Wenn nur die Wurzel oder die ganze Pflanze mit einem bestimmten Herbizid behandelt wurden, begann bei der jeweiligen Pflanzenart die Hemmung des Wurzelwachstums zur selben Zeit. Mit Ausnahme von Dinoseb, war der Zeitpunkt der Wurzelhemmung sowohl zwischen Erbse und Gerste und dem jeweiligen Herbizid unterschiedlich. Bei der Erbse bewegten sich diese Zeiten zwischen 12,5 Stunden mit Diuron bis 23,8 Stunden mit Diphenamid und bei der Gerste von 11.1 Stunden mit Diphenamid bis 21,3 Stunden mit EPTC. Nur in einigen wenigen Fällen hörte das Wurzelwachstum während des Versuchszeitraums auf. EPTC, Diphenamid, Dinoseb und Trifluralin (nur bei der Gerste) hemmten wirksam das Längenwachstum der Wurzeln, wogegen Diuron, Simazin, Paraquat, Dalapon und Trifluralin (nur bei der Erbse) keine direkte Wirkung auf das Wurzelwachstum bei normalen im Feld angewandten Aufwandmengen hatten.     

Paraquat-resistant biotypes of Hordeum glaucum from zero-tillage wheat

There has been a significant increase in the area seeded to minimum- and zero-tilled crops worldwide over the past two decades. These cropping systems rely primarily on the non-selective herbicides glyphosate or paraquat/diquat to control weeds before seeding the crop. Both glyphosate and paraquat/diquat are regarded as low-risk herbicides in the ability of target weeds to develop resistance to them. Following 10–15 years of once annual applications of paraquat and diquat for weed control in zero-tilled cereals, failure of these herbicides to control Hordeum glaucum Steud. in two separate fields occurred. Dose–response experiments demonstrated high-level resistance to paraquat and diquat in both populations; however, the resistant biotypes are susceptible to other herbicides. This is the first report, worldwide, of paraquat resistance following the use of this herbicide in zero-tillage cropping systems and is therefore a harbinger of future problems in minimum-tillage systems when there is exclusive reliance on a contact herbicide for weed control.     

Effects of weed control practices on surface-dwelling arthropod predators in tomato agroecosystems

Weed control, an important practice in agroecosystems to protect crop production, is usually achieved with herbicides. However, these pesticides are expensive, pose potential risks to the environment, may affect some beneficial organisms indirectly, and decrease overall arthropod biodiversity, including pests and their natural enemies, by removing weeds that might act as hosts or shelters for many organisms. The activity density response of important surface-dwelling arthropod predators (ground beetles [Coleoptera: Carabidae], ants [Hymenoptera: Formicidae] and spiders [Arachnida: Araneae]) to herbicides (trifluralin and paraquat), and to two alternative weed management practices (rye straw mulch and mechanical treatment to maintain weeds below threshold levels, in comparison with an untreated check), was assessed using pitfall traps. The mulch treatment had the greatest effect on activity density, reducing the number of predators trapped significantly (P<0.05). Herbicide use resulted in significant (P<0.05) reductions in the activity density of ground beetles. Most predators were trapped in the check plots — which had the highest weed biomass, followed in turn by numbers trapped in the threshold weed control treatment, the full herbicide application and the mulch treatment plots. http://www.phytoparasitica.org posting July 10, 2002.     

Simulation of herbicide persistence in soil .I. Simazine and prometryne

The effects of soil temperature and soil moisture content on the rates of degradation of simazine and prometryne were measured under controlled conditions. The time for 50% disappearance of simazine in a sandy loam soil varied from 37 days at 25°C and 13 % soil moisture to 234 days at 15°C and 7% soil moisture. With prometryne, changes in soil moisture content had a greater effect on the rate of loss than similar changes with simazine. The time for 50% disappearance at 25°C was increased from 30 to 590 days with a reduction in soil moisture content from 14 to 5%. With both herbicides, the rate of degradation increased as the initial herbicide concentration decreased and the data suggest that a hyperbolic rate law may be more appropriate than simple first-order kinetics. Degradation curves for three separate field applications of the two herbicides were simulated using the laboratory data and the relevant meteorological records in a computer program. A close fit to the observed pattern of loss of incorporated prometryne was obtained, but prometryne surface-applied was lost rapidly during the first 30–40 days after application. This initial rapid loss could not be predicted by the program. With simazine, the patterns of loss of surface and incorporated treatments were similar, but the simulation model tended to overestimate residue levels. Possible reasons for the discrepancies are discussed.