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Influence of Nitrogen on Recovery of Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) Treated by Herbicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

B. Jack Johnson*
Affiliation:
Univ. of Georgia, Georgia Stn., Experiment, GA 30212

Abstract

Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. ‘Tifway’] injured by MSMA (monosodium methanearsonate) plus metribuzin [4-amino-6-tert-butyl-3-(methylthio)-as-triazin-5(4H)-one] or 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid] plus mecoprop {2-[(4-chloro-o-tolyl)oxy] propionic acid} plus dicamba (3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid) recovered more rapidly when nitrogen (N) was applied in sequence with the herbicides than when no N was applied. Bermudagrass recovery was faster with less injury within 2 weeks after herbicide treatment when N was applied at the first MSMA plus metribuzin treatment or when N was applied at 2 weeks after the first 2,4-D plus mecoprop plus dicamba treatment. Turf quality at 4 weeks or later was consistently as good or better in plots where N was applied at 2 weeks after the first application of either herbicide combination than when N was applied earlier.

Type
Weed Control and Herbicide Technology
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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