F. Sopeña, C. Maqueda, and E. Morillo. 2009. Controlled release formulations of herbicides based on micro-encapsulation. Cien. Inv. Agr. 36(1): 27-42. Annual worldwide losses to weeds are estimated to comprise approximately 10-15% of attainable production among principal food sources. Worldwide consumption of herbicides represents 47.5% of the 2 million tons of pesticide consumed each year. How...

Gene mutations endowing herbicide resistance may have negative pleiotropic effects on plant fitness. Quantifying these is critical for predicting the evolution of and developing management strategies herbicide-resistant weeds. This study reports acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) Trp574Leu mutation throughout life cycle feral radish (Raphanus sativus L.). Resistant susceptible phenotypes responde...

leaving crop residues on the soil surface may significantly affect the behavior and activity of herbicides. in order to study the effect of wheat residue and different rates of trifluralin (%48 ec) herbicide on the yield and oil content of sunflower (helianthus annuus) a field experiment was done in agricultural research station, the university of birjand in summer 2008. experimental design was...

The acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase)-inhibiting cyclohexanedione herbicide clethodim is used to control grass weeds infesting dicot crops. In Australia clethodim is widely used to control the weed Lolium rigidum. However, clethodim resistant Lolium populations have appeared over the last five years and now are present in many populations across the Western Australian wheat belt (Owen et al. 2007...

abstract in order to evaluate the effects of rice conventional herbicides on rotational second crops (lettuce, cress, clover, canola and radish), soil microbial biomass and diversity, a field and glasshouse experiments were conducted in mazandaran province and research glasshouse of ferdowsi university of mashhad, respectively. five experiments were carried out for 5 second crop separately with...

Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) can be problematic in thin turf, along sidewalks and drives, and especially during turfgrass establishment. Little published research exists evaluating herbicides that will control purslane and are also labeled for turfgrass. Thus, our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of preemergence (PRE) or postemergence (POST) herbicides labeled for use in turf f...

The herbicide imazapic is registered for use on rangelands and provides effective short-term control of certain invasive annual grasses. However, details about optimal application rates for downy brome and susceptibility of simultaneously seeded species are lacking. Thus, we investigated downy brome and seeded species responses to variable rates of imazapic (0, 35, 70, 105, and 140 g ai/ha) in ...