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Nicosulfuron Absorption, Translocation, and Metabolism in Annual Bluegrass and Four Turfgrass Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Sudeep S. Sidhu ,
Jialin Yu  and
Patrick E. McCullough
Sudeep S. Sidhu
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Griffin, GA 30223
Jialin Yu
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Griffin, GA 30223
Patrick E. McCullough*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Griffin, GA 30223
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: pmccull@uga.edu
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Abstract

Nicosulfuron provides POST weed control in corn, pastures, and grassy roadsides, and has potential for use in fine turfgrass. The objective of this research was to evaluate tolerance, absorption, translocation, and metabolism of nicosulfuron in annual bluegrass and four turfgrass species. In greenhouse experiments, relative tolerance of grasses to nicosulfuron (35, 70, or 140 g ai ha−1) from high to low was bermudagrass = zoysiagrass > tall fescue > creeping bentgrass > annual bluegrass. In laboratory experiments, grasses had similar foliar and root absorption of 14C-nicosulfuon. Annual bluegrass and creeping bentgrass averaged 80% greater radioactivity per unit dry mass in shoots than bermudagrass following root uptake of 14C-nicosulfuron, but other species were similar to these grasses. At 72 h after treatment (HAT), annual bluegrass metabolized 36% of absorbed 14C-nicosulfuron, which was less than bermudagrass, tall fescue, and zoysiagrass that metabolized 47 to 58%. Creeping bentgrass metabolism of nicosulfuron was similar to annual bluegrass. Tall fescue had similar levels of metabolism to bermudagrass and zoysiagrass, averaging 67%, at 168 HAT but produced fewer metabolites. Overall, turfgrass tolerance to nicosulfuron is associated with relative herbicide concentrations in shoots and differential species metabolism.

Keywords

Annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.)bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon × transvaalensis Burtt-Davy) ‘Princess 77’creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) ‘Penn A-4’tall fescue [Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S.J. Darbyshire] ‘Titan’zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.) ‘Zenith’.Absorptionefficacymetabolismtranslocationturf
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 433 - 440
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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