Flumioxazin selectivity to wheat

Abstract

The chemical control of weeds is an important management to keep high productivity in the wheat crop. Due to the scarceness of registered products for the crop, the goal of this work was to evaluate the selectivity of the flumioxazin herbicide to wheat, applied in post-emergence. The experiment was conducted on the field and the used experimental design was the randomized block one, with four replications. The treatments were applied on stage V3 of the wheat crop and consisted in six flumioxazin doses: 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 g ha^-1. Evaluations were performed on SPAD index, intoxication and weed control on day 15, 21, 28 and 35 after application. At the end of the experiment, 109 days after seeding, plants were tracked to determine the one thousand grain weight, hectoliter weight and grain productivity. The obtained results showed that in spite of causing an up to 20% SPAD index and up to 34% intoxication reduction in the highest applied dose, flumioxazin provided selectivity to the wheat crop, since it did not interfere in the other evaluated variables, mainly in grain productivity.