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Toxicity, Absorption, and Translocation of Soil-Applied Chlorimuron in Yellow and Purple Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Krishna N. Reddy
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 432310
Leo E. Bendixen
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 432310

Abstract

The activity of soil-applied chlorimuron in yellow and purple nutsedge was studied in greenhouse and laboratory experiments. Soil-applied chlorimuron decreased tuber sprouting by 80% in yellow nutsedge and by 30% in purple nutsedge at 60 g ai/ha. Chlorimuron decreased shoot emergence by 53 to 83% and shoot growth by 85 to 99% in both species at rates as low as 10 g/ha. Previous exposure of tubers to chlorimuron-treated soil reduced tuber resprouting by 20 to 25% in herbicide-free soil at 60 g/ha in both species. There was no rate response in shoot emergence from tubers previously exposed to chlorimuron, but shoot dry weight decreased by 60 to 81% in both species at 60 g/ha. At 12 h after application, 47% of the total 14C applied to the shoot in yellow nutsedge and 32% of that applied in purple nutsedge were absorbed. However, less than 1% of the total 14C applied was translocated out of the shoot and into the roots and tuber in either species. In both species, 1.3% of the 14C applied to the roots and tuber was absorbed and 0.1% was translocated out of the roots and tuber into the shoot at 12 h after application. The pattern of root- and tuber-absorbed 14C distribution indicated that the 14C absorbed by the tuber remained in the tuber and that absorbed by the roots was translocated to the shoots.

Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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