The objective of this work was to assess the residual effect of herbicides applied in soybean cultures on the productivity of corn planted in succession. Five experiment units were installed in the crop year 2002/2003 in random blocks, with four replications. Each experiment corresponded to the period between the application of the herbicides and the planting of the corn: zero (planting on the same day of application) 30, 60, 90 and 120 days after application (daa). Experiments were made up of eight treatments (herbicides diclosulan, sulfentrazone, imazaquin, imazethapyr, fomesafen, lactofen, and chlorimuron-ethyl, and control treatment), and the effect of the herbicides on the corn was evaluated by means of fitotoxicity and productivity. The effect of fitotoxicity was significant at zero and 30 daa, and was directly correlated to the reduction of the corn productivity, especially for the herbicides diclosulan and imazaquin. At 60 daa there was no direct correlation between fitotoxicity and productivity, showing that the culture of corn presented capacity to recover. At 90 and 120 daa no symptoms of fitotoxicity were found in any treatment. The products had an effect on the culture of corn, especially when it was planted up to 60 days after the application of the herbicides.
Glycine max; Zea mays; phytotoxicity; successive crop
