Tolerance of cassava cultivars to herbicides fomesafen and fluazifop-p-butyl

Abstract

Several studies report herbicide tolerance variations of same species with different genotypes. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the tolerance of five cassava cultivars to the post-emergence applications of fluazifop-p-butyl, fomesafen and the association of both products. In the first visual assessment of intoxication, the most visible symptoms in cassava plants of poisoning was observed at 7 days after application (DAA), caused by mixture treatment (fomesafen + fluzifop-p-butyl) and fomesafen isolated as well. At the end of the evaluation period (35 DAP), was observed reduction of intoxication signs and foliage recovery of all cassava cultivars tested. The mixture showed to be very toxic causing reductions in leaf dry matter, stem dry matter, shoots dry matter, stem diameter, leaf area and plant height. Despite a high rate of poisoning by the herbicide fomesafen, variations in dry matter accumulation was not observed Treatments based on fluazifop-p-butyl were not toxic to culture similar to plants of the check plots. There were no differences of tolerance level to herbicide treatments in the all cassava cultivars tested.