The objective of this work was to study the agronomic effectiveness of herbicides used in raw sugar cane areas to control Euphorbia heterophylla and Ipomoea grandifolia. The herbicides trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn - (27,77 + 1,097 g a.i. ha-1) and (37 + 1,463 g a.i. ha-1), mesotrione - (120 and 192 g a.i. ha-1), mesotrione + ametryn -(120 + 1,500 g a.i. ha-1), mesotrione + (trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn) - 120 + ( 27.77 + 1,097 g a.i. ha-1), (trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn) + (diuron + hexazinone) - (27.77 + 1,097 g a.i. ha-1) + (702 + 198 g a.i. ha-1) and metribuzin - 1,920 g a.i. ha-1 were applied under the following conditions: weed pre-emergence on sugar cane straw;weed pre-emergence on the soil, followed by straw cover and weed post-emergence by spraying on the straw in between the sugar cane rows. Additionally, checks were evaluated with and without weed control. The experiment was installed in a commercial sugar cane plantation, on loamy textured soil in Araras, SP. Based on the results obtained, it was concluded that herbicide application on sugar cane straw during weed pre-emergence negatively affected the effectiveness of mesotrione (120 g a.i. ha-1) and trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn (27.77 + 1,097 g a.i. ha-1) and the mixtures mesotrine + ametryn and mesotrione + (trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn); (the herbicides applied on post-emergence sugar cane are selective for the culture; The herbicides metribuzin and (trifloxysulfuron-sodium + ametryn) + (diuron + hexazinone) were effective in the control of Euphorbia heterophylla and Ipomoea grandifolia, regardless of type of application.
Euphorbia heterophylla; Ipomoea grandifolia; control; straw
