BioOne.org will be down briefly for maintenance on 17 December 2024 between 18:00-22:00 Pacific Time US. We apologize for any inconvenience.
How to translate text using browser tools
1 March 2017 Postemergence Weed Control in Onion with Bentazon, Flumioxazin, and Oxyfluorfen
Chad M. Herrmann, Margaret A. Goll, Colin J. Phillippo, Bernard H. Zandstra
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

Field experiments were conducted in 2008 and 2010 to determine crop tolerance and weed control efficacy of the POST herbicides bentazon, flumioxazin, and oxyfluorfen applied to direct-seeded dry bulb onions on organic soil. Postemergence application of oxyfluorfen at 0.071 kg ai ha-1 resulted in less than 20% onion injury when applied at the 2 and 4 onion leaf stages and provided good control of ladysthumb and common lambsquarters. Oxyfluorfen EC caused slightly higher visual injury than oxyfluorfen SC, but there was no difference in onion yield among the treatments. Application of flumioxazin at 0.036 of 0.072 kg ai ha-1 alone or in combination with pendimethalin ACS resulted in minimal onion injury and no yield reduction. Combining flumioxazin in a tank mix with pendimethalin EC, dimethenamid-P EC, or S-metolachlor EC resulted in significant onion injury and yield reduction. Flumioxazin plus S-metolachlor, dimethenamid-P, or pendimethalin improved ladysthumb control in one of two years. Bentazon applied at 0.56 kg ai ha-1 produced moderate onion injury and did not control yellow nutsedge adequately. Bentazon applied at 1.12 kg ai ha-1 provided good control of yellow nutsedge but caused serious onion injury and yield loss.

Nomenclature: Bentazon, dimethenamid, flumioxazin, oxyfluorfen, pendimethalin, S-metolachlor, common lambsquarters, Chenopodium album L., hairy nightshade, Solanum physalifolium Rusby, ladysthumb, Polygonum persicaria L., redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus L., yellow nutsedge, Cyperus esculentus L., onion, Allium cepa L.

© Weed Science Society of America, 2017
Chad M. Herrmann, Margaret A. Goll, Colin J. Phillippo, and Bernard H. Zandstra "Postemergence Weed Control in Onion with Bentazon, Flumioxazin, and Oxyfluorfen," Weed Technology 31(2), 279-290, (1 March 2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2016.16
Received: 25 July 2016; Accepted: 1 October 2016; Published: 1 March 2017
KEYWORDS
Crop safety
postemergence
tank mix
weed control
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top