Mature Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) Control in Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) Turf with a Metribuzin–Diclofop Combination

Autor: Charles L. Murdoch, Roy K. Nishimoto
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Weed Technology. 13:169-171
ISSN: 1550-2740
0890-037X
DOI: 10.1017/s0890037x00045097
Popis: Field studies were conducted to determine if metribuzin-diclofop combinations could provide selective control of mature goosegrass in common bermudagrass turf. In two field trials, diclofop at 1.7 kg ai/ha provided 19% control of mature goosegrass at 7 wk after treatment (WAT), whereas metribuzin at 0.28 or 0.56 kg ai/ha controlled 30 and 53%, respectively. When diclofop at 1.7 kg/ha was combined with metribuzin at 0.28 or 0.56 kg/ha, goosegrass control increased to 68 and 90%, respectively. That degree of mature goosegrass control with a single application of metribuzin at 0.56 kg/ha plus diclofop at 1.7 kg/ha was equivalent to metribuzin at 0.56 kg/ha plus MSMA at 2.2 kg ae/ha followed by MSMA at 2.2 kg/ha 1 wk later. The metribuzin-diclofop combination injured common bermudagrass turf less than or equivalent to the metribuzin-MSMA combination. The injury was transitory: at 3 WAT, none of the treatments injured common bermudagrass. Nomenclature: Diclofop, 2-[4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenoxy]propanoic acid; metribuzin, 4-amino-6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-(methylthio)-1,2,4-triazin-5(4H)-onc; MSMA, monosodium salt of methylar-sonic acid; bermudagrass, Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers # 3 CYNDA; goosegrass, Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. # ELEIN.
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