RESUMO Este estudo foi conduzido para avaliar a eficácia de controle da espécie daninha apaga-fogo (Alternanthera tenella) e o potencial antagônico ou sinérgico das associações de saflufenacil com paraquat, metribuzin e clomazone. O experimento foi realizado em vasos, em casa de vegetação, em delineamento inteiramente casualizado com quatro repetições. Os tratamentos foram constituídos de doses do herbicida saflufenacil (0, 0,35, 0,7, 1,4, 2,1 e 2,8 g ha-1) aplicadas de forma isolada ou associadas ao paraquat (0, 1 e 3 g ha-1), metribuzin (0, 38,4 e 105,6 g ha-1) ou clomazone (0, 288 e 504 g ha-1). Foram determinados o controle visual aos 14 e 21 dias após a aplicação (DAA) dos herbicidas e a matéria seca da parte aérea das plantas aos 21 DAA. O método de Colby foi utilizado para o cálculo da resposta esperada da interação entre os herbicidas. As associações de saflufenacil com paraquat e metribuzin foram promissoras no controle de A. tenella, pela elevação dos níveis de controle e pela compatibilidade demonstrada entre os herbicidas, especialmente em algumas combinações. A associação entre saflufenacil e clomazone não foi promissora para o controle de A. tenella, em razão dos baixos níveis de controle e da incompatibilidade entre os herbicidas.

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of joyweed (Alternanthera tenella) control and antagonistic or synergistic potentials of saflufenacil herbicide applied alone or tank mixed with paraquat, metribuzin and clomazone. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse in a completely randomized design with four replications. Treatments consisted of saflufenacil herbicide doses (0, 0.4, 0.7, 1.4, 2.1 and 2.8 g ha-1) applied isolated or associated with paraquat (0, 1 and 3 g ha-1), metribuzin (0, 38.4 and 105.6 g ha-1) or clomazone (0, 288 and 504 g ha-1). Visual control was determined at 14 and 21 days after spraying the herbicides (DAA) and shoots dry matter at 21 DAA. Colby's method was used to calculate the response from herbicide interactions. Saflufenacil associations with paraquat and metribuzin were promising to control A. tenella, due to the high levels of control achieved and because they demonstrated compatibility, especially in some combinations. Tank mixing saflufenacil with clomazone was not promising for the control of A. tenella due to the low efficacy of joyweed control and because it demonstrated herbicide incompatibility.

The magnetic and transport properties of the compound La0.7Sr0.3Mn1-xFe xO 3 (0.1 < x <0.4) have been studied by means of electrical resistivity, AC magnetic susceptibility, and DC magnetization. At low concentrations (x <0.1), the system displays essentially para-to-ferromagnetic transitions as the temperature is decreased, although a decrease in the magnetic moment has been observed in previous studies at temperatures a little below T C. This ferromagnetism is explained by double exchange theory in terms of the formation of Mn+3/Mn+4 ions pairs in the system. At concentrations in the range 0.1 < x <0.4 the system is more complex. Increased Fe doping not only weakens the ferromagnetic (FM) order and augments the resistivity of the samples, but also induces the appearance of a reentrant spin glass phase at low temperatures (T < 60 K). Irreversibility of the magnetization measured with zero field cooling and with field cooling has been observed. In addition, the AC susceptibility peak position varies with frequency. All these effects are characteristic of spin glass behavior. The results have been interpreted based in an increase of frustration due to increasing competition between FM Mn+3/Mn+4 interactions and antiferromagnetic interactions between ions at the boundaries of Fe clusters.