The Dose-Response Curve and Isobolograms methodology, based on the I50 generated by curves has been largely recommended to demonstrate synergism. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse, with sunflower cultivated in nutrient solution (Hoagland), applying in solution 27 treatments, with the herbicides metribuzin, at the rates of 0, 70, 140, 280, 560 and 1,130 nM and clomazone, at the rates of 0, 40, 80, 160, 320 and 640 mM. The herbicide doses were combined so as to produce the I50 of six resulting curves from the matches. Injury percentage, and fresh and dry weight of sunflower plants were determined five days after application on the collected plants.The six points of I50 from each variable were used to obtain isobolograms, where the I50 of herbicides applied alone, jointed by a straight line, formed the isobole of additivity. Around of it, confidences strips were drawn from the product of confidences intervals of isolated herbicides I50's, where were positioned the I50 resulting from the mixtures. All the I50 mixtures were positioned in the synergism zone, below the isobole of additivity, although with different probabilities. For dry mass variable, the mixture of clomazone rates with 140 nM of metribuzin showed probability around 90% of being a synergistic interaction.
herbicide mixture; synergism; metribuzin; clomazone
