The objective of this work was to study the selectivity of herbicides to sugarcane when applied in crops treated with nematicides. The experiment was carried out in Borebi, São Paulo-Brazil, during the growing season 2000/2001. The sugar cane variety RB855113 was used. The experimental design was a randomized block in split-plots with 4 repetitions. Each plot corresponded to 27 rows of 10.0m, 1.0 m spaced, split into three sub-plots. The plots corresponded to the treatments with the herbicides and the sub-plots to the application or not of the nematicides carbofuran (2.10 kg ha-1) and terbufos (2.25 kg ha-1). The following herbicides were studied: tebuthiuron (1.12 kg ha-1), ametryne (1.75 kg ha-1), sulfentrazone (0.8 kg ha-1), metribuzin (1.92 kg ha¹), isoxaflutole (0.0525 kg ha-1), clomazone (1.25 kg ha-1), oxyfluorfen (0.36 kg ha-1) and azafenidin+ hexazinone (0.1575 + 0.2025 kg ha-1). All the herbicides were applied in pre-emergence. The results showed that the herbicides oxyfluorfen and azafenidin+hexazinone caused the most severe phytotoxicity symptoms. Regardless of nematicide application, all the herbicides were selective to the crop, providing growth rates and yields similar to the controls. The selectivity of the herbicides was not affected by the nematicides.
phytotoxicity; interaction; Saccarum afficinalis
