A field experiment was carried out during 1989/90 at the Eldorado do Sul Experimental Station of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil with the objective of evaluating potencial injury to sunflower by chlorimuron-ethyl applied at three different dosages in pre-emergence (PRE) or preplant incorporated (PPI). Chlorimuron-ethyl activity was not dependent on the application method. Early in the season there were higher levels of injury to the plants, with little or no response to dosages with regard to shoot weight, leaf area and seedling size. However, plant height assessed late in the season indicated recovery from initial symptoms. Apparently, chlorimuron-ethyl injury to sunflower is limited in a rotation soybean-sunflower.
Helianthus annuus; residual herbicide; herbicide dissipation; soil persistence; crop rotation; sulfonylureas