Efficacy of the herbicide sulfentrazone in preemergence control of weeds in soybean

Abstract

The experiment was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farrn of the State University of São Paulo, in Selviria- MS, a region ofCerrados vegetation. The objective ofthe study was to evaluate the selectivity and efficacy ofpreemergence application ofsulflentrazone in soybean. Treatrnents included sulfentrazone at 500,550 and 600 g/ha, sequential postemergence application of imazaquim and clethodim at 140 + 72 g/ha and tank mixed fomesafen + clethodim at 250 + 72 g/ha. A weedy and a weeded control were also included. Sulfentrazone at ali rates caused very low toxicity symptoms in soybean, IAC-15 cultivar, and gave good control of Acanthospermum hispidium, Bidens pilosa, Commelina benghalensis and Cenchrus echinatus.