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Sulfometuron for Eliminating Bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum) From Centipedegrass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) and Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Wayne W. Hanna
Affiliation:
U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Res. Serv.
Charles W. Swann
Affiliation:
Coop. Ext. Serv. (VPI and SU, Tidewater Agric. Exp. Stn., Suffolk, VA 23437)
Jill Schroeder
Affiliation:
U.S. Dep. Agric., Agric. Res. Serv. (Asst. Prof., Dep. Entomol., Plant Pathol., and Weed Sci., Las Cruces, NM 88003)
Phil R. Utley
Affiliation:
Anim. Sci., all Coastal Plains Exp. Stn., Tifton, GA 31793

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine if ‘Pensacola’ bahiagrass, a major weed in turf and pastures in the southeastern United States, could be eliminated selectively from centipedegrass and ‘Tifway’ bermudagrass turf and a ‘Coastal’ bermudagrass pasture by treating with sulfometuron. Established Pensacola bahiagrass usually was controlled satisfactorily in Tifway bermudagrass and centipedegrass turf and in a Coastal bermudagrass pasture with sulfometuron at 210, 160, 105 g ai/ha applied twice, respectively. Bahiagrass seedlings were eliminated from both newly planted centipedegrass and Tifway bermudagrass turf with 105 g/ha sulfometuron applied once.

Type
Research
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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