A field experiment was conducted at the Education, Research and Production Farm of UNESP in Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil, during the agricultural year 2005/2006 to evaluate the selectivity of the glyphosate-tolerant soybean varieties (CD 214 RR and M-SOY 8008 RR) to different glyphosate-derived herbicides (Roundup Ready, Roundup Transorb, Roundup Original, Roundup WG, Polaris, Gliz, Glifosato Nortox, Trop).l. A randomized block in split-plot design was used with four replications. The herbicides had been applied at 1.2 kg ae ha-1, when the soybean plants had reached the second fully expanded leaf stage. No injury due to herbicide action was observed in the soybean plants. For the other characteristics evaluated, the interaction between varieties and herbicides was not significant, indicating that factors behaved independently. M-SOY 8008 RR plants presented higher height and number of nodes, but lower grain yield than CD 214 RR plants, due to the lower number of beans per pod¹. No significant difference was found among the herbicides, which did not influence the vegetative and reproductive development of the soybean plants.
transgenic soybean; phytotoxicity; Roundup Ready
