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A Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula) Biotype in Australia Resistant to Bipyridyl Herbicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Stephen B. Powles ,
Edwin S. Tucker  and
Tom R. Morgan
Stephen B. Powles
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Waite Agric. Res. Inst., Univ. Adelaide, South Australia
Edwin S. Tucker
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Waite Agric. Res. Inst., Univ. Adelaide, South Australia
Tom R. Morgan
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. and Rural Affairs, Ararat, Victoria, Australia
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Abstract

Paraquat and diquat were used from 1963 until 1986 to control capeweed and other annual weeds on an alfalfa field at Elmhurst, Victoria, Australia. From 1983, control of capeweed with these bipyridyl herbicides was no longer satisfactory. In experiments conducted on this field in 1986 and 1987, 800 g ai/ha of diquat was required to equal the control of capeweed obtained by 100 g/ha diquat in an adjacent pasture field with no history of herbicide use. There were substantial numbers of a diquat-resistant biotype within the population in the alfalfa field. It is concluded that the diquat-resistant biotype of capeweed became dominant due to the strong selection pressure provided by over 20 yr of use of the bipyridyl herbicides.

Keywords

Paraquat, 1,1′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium iondiquat, 6,7-dihydrodipyrido[1,2-α:2′,1′]-pyrazinediium ioncapeweed, Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levynsalfalfa, Medicago sativaParaquatdiquatweed resistance
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 60 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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