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Response of Zoysia (Zoysia spp.) and Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) Cultivars to Herbicide Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

B. J. Johnson
B. J. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Univ. Georgia, Georgia Stn., Experiment, GA 30212
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Abstract

Annual herbicide treatments are usually necessary for acceptable control of grassy weeds in turfgrasses and it is important that repeated treatment do not injure the turf. Seven herbicides were applied annually for 4 yr at recommended and three times recommended rates to ‘Emerald’, ‘Meyer’, and ‘Matrella’ zoysia (Zoysia spp.) and three herbicides were applied annually for 3 yr at similar rates to Tifway′, ‘Tifgreen’, ‘Tifdwarf’ and ‘Ormond’ bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.]. Herbicide treatments delayed early spring green-up of Emerald and Matrella slightly more than Meyer zoysia when compared with respective untreated checks. Four annual treatments of napropamide [2-(α-naphthoxy)-N,N-diethylpropionamide] and profluralin [N-(cyclopropylmethyl)-a,a,a-trifluoro-2, 6-dinitro-N-propyl-p-toluidine] reduced the cover of Meyer more than Emerald or Matrella when final ratings were made. The 10.1 kg/ha rate of prosulfalin {N-[[4-(dipropylamino)-3,5-dinitrophenyl] sulfonyl]-S,S-dimethylsulfilimine} and benefin (N-butyl-N-ethyl-α,α,α-trifluoro-2,6-dinitro-p-toluidine) also reduced the cover of Meyer. Profluralin at 10.1 kg/ha was the only treatment that reduced the stand of Matrella and none of the treatments reduced the stand of Emerald. The 10.1 kg/ha treatments of profluralin and prosulfalin reduced the stand of Tifgreen, Tifdwarf, and Ormond more than Tifway bermudagrass. None of the herbicide treatments reduced the stand of Tifway.

Keywords

Turf green-upturf qualityturf standannual treatments
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , September 1978 , pp. 493 - 497
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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