A trial was conducted in 1990, 91 and 92 at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, to investigate the effects of herbicides sprayed during the reproductive period of balloonvine (Cardiospermum halicacabum), morningglory (Ipomoea grandifolia), and jimsonweed (Datua stramonium). Two imidazolinones (imazaquin and imazethapyr) and two sulfonylureas (chlorimuron and metsulfuron) were tested and evaluated on foliar and cotyledonar areas, plant height, and dry matter of weed seedlings. ln jimsonweed, foliar and cotyledonar areas of seedlings did not differ from the control. However, the beights of ballonvine and jimsonweed seedlings were affected by the herbicides: in jimsonweed specially by chlorimuron, in baloonvine by chlorimuron, and metsulfuron. Multiple treatment influenced total plant dry matter and also dry matter of some components of jimsonweed plants. ln morningglory no effects of herbicide treatment on the traits evaluated were observed. ln general, characteristics of seedlings of the next generation were influenced by some herbicides applied during the reproductive period of the mother plants, for example dry matter in jimsonweed and height in baloonvine, depending on the compound and rate used and its time of application.
Reproductive characteristics; imidazolinones; sulfonylureas; late applications; seedlings