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Chemical Approaches for Improving Herbicide Selectivity and Crop Tolerance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

G. R. Stephenson  and
G. Ezra
G. R. Stephenson
Affiliation:
Dep. Environ. Biol., Univ. Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
G. Ezra
Affiliation:
Dep. Environ. Biol., Univ. Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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Abstract

Combinations of antagonistic herbicides can be helpful in the search for seed-applied chemical safeners to protect crop plants from herbicide injury. If a particular herbicide combination is selectively antagonistic so that the crop is not injured but weed control efficacy is not reduced, it should be possible to develop a new, more selective formulation of the herbicide which includes the antagonist or antidote. A promising new approach involves the use of early pretreatments of crop plants with subtoxic levels of a particular herbicide to increase crop tolerance to later, higher rates of that herbicide. When there are different mechanisms for herbicide detoxification in different plant species, it should also be possible to develop selective herbicide synergists that would provide equal efficacy at lower rates with greater crop tolerance. As our knowledge of herbicide metabolism and mode of action develops, it will be increasingly possible to use other chemicals to selectively synergize or safen herbicides to solve problems in important crop-weed situations.

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Weed Science , Volume 35 , Issue S1: Genetic Engineering for Herbicide Resistance , 1987 , pp. 24 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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