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Duration of yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) competitiveness after herbicide treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jason A. Ferrell ,
Hugh J. Earl  and
William K. Vencill
Jason A. Ferrell
Affiliation:
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Hugh J. Earl
Affiliation:
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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Abstract

Experiments were initiated to determine the amount of time required for postemergence herbicides to render yellow nutsedge physiologically noncompetitive. The rate of net CO2 assimilation (AN) was chosen as the response variable to describe competitiveness. Specifically, the time required after herbicide treatment for AN to drop to 50% of that of the untreated control (AN50) was determined. AN50 values for halosulfuron, imazapic, glyphosate, and MSMA were 1.6, 2.1, 3.2, and 3.3 d, respectively. An AN50 value was not calculated for bentazon because AN rapidly decreased below 50% but recovered to > 50% by 9 d after treatment (DAT). Stomatal conductance to water vapor (gs) declined similarly with AN over time for halosulfuron, imazapic, and glyphosate treatments. However, gs of MSMA-treated plants was near 95% of the untreated control, whereas AN declined to 35% 11 DAT. At 11 DAT, all aboveground biomass was removed, and plants were returned to the greenhouse, and regrowth was determined after an additional 14 d. Yellow nutsedge regrowth for halosulfuron, imazapic, glyphosate, and MSMA was below 5% of the untreated control and was not statistically different. However, regrowth from bentazon was 44% of the control. Therefore, bentazon was the least effective herbicide tested, whereas halosulfuron and imazapic were most effective for yellow nutsedge control.

Keywords

BentazonglyphosatehalosulfuronimazapicMSMAyellow nutsedge, Cyperus esculentus L. CYPERGas exchangenet carbon assimilationstomatal conductance
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 24 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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