Jamil Constantin

Glyphosate reduces shoot concentrations of mineral nutrients in glyphosate-resistant soybeans.

Although glyphosate-resistant (GR) technology is used in most countries producing soybeans (Glycine max L.), there are no particular fertilize recommendations for use of this technology, and not much has been reported on the influence of glyphosate on GR soybean nutrient status. An evaluation of different cultivar maturity groups on different soil types, revealed a significant decrease in macro and micronutrients in leaf tissues, and in photosynthetic parameters (chlorophyll, photosynthetic rate, transpiration and stomatal conductance) with glyphosate use (single or sequential application). Irrespective of glyphosate applications, concentrations of shoot macro- and micronutrients were found lower in the near-isogenic GR-cultivars compared to their respective non-GR parental lines Shoot and root dry biomass were reduced by glyphosate with all GR cultivars evaluated in both soils. The lower biomass in GR soybeans compared to their isogenic normal lines probably represents additive effects from the decreased photosynthetic parameters as well as lower availability of nutrients in tissues of the glyphosate treated plants.

Período anterior a interferência de plantas daninhas em soja: estudo de caso com baixo estande e testemunhas duplas

A field experiment was carried out at Boa Terra Farm (Quarto Centenario, PR) ,to evaluate the effect of different periods of Euphorbia heterophylla interference on low-density soybean (cv. BRS-133). The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design, with four replicates and 11 periods of weed interference, by using twofold checks. The periods of interference consisted in keeping the weed interference for 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, 47, 54, 61, 68 days after crop emergence (DAE) or for the whole cycle. At the first weeding, E. heterophylla densities and dry mass were analyzed. Crop stand and yield were the parameters that expressed the most damages due to the increased weed interference period. Using twofold checks, the period before interference was 11 days after emergence (DAE), indicating the need of early weed control. From the 11th to the 68th DAE, the interference imposed by weeds promoted daily losses of 6.45 kg ha-1 in soybean yield. Weed competition for the entire cycle promoted a 38% decrease in crop yield.

Critérios para avaliação do potencial de lixiviação dos herbicidas comercializados no Estado do Paraná

A survey was carried out on the commercialization of herbicides in Parana, to verify their total input in the environment. Based on the chemical properties of these herbicides, theoretical criteria ranking them according to their leaching potential were evaluated. The highest volume of commercialization was found to occur from October to November, probably related to the increased demand caused by the summer crop cycle. The mechanisms of action whose consumption is most expressive are the aminoacid synthesis inhibitors (36.9% of the total volume), followed by the photosynthesis inhibitors (31.3%), synthetic auxins (11%) and mitosis inhibitors (8.8%). The herbicides glyphosate (4526.28 t), atrazine (3075.91), 2,4-D (1659.33) and sulfosate (631.60 t) account together for around 65% of the total volume commercialized in the state. Ranking herbicides according to their leaching potential showed that acifluorfen-sodium, alachlor, atrazine, chlorimuron-ethyl, fomesafen, hexazinone, imazamox, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazethapyr, metolachlor, metribuzin, metsulfuron-methyl, nicosulfuron, picloram, sulfentrazone and tebuthiuron are potential leachers according to the three theoretical criteria adopted (GUS, CDFA and Cohen).

Sorption–Desorption of Indaziflam in Selected Agricultural Soils

Indaziflam, a new alkylazine herbicide that inhibits cellulose biosynthesis, is under current development for soil applications in perennial crops and nonagricultural areas. Sorption and desorption of indaziflam in six soils from Brazil and three soils from the United States, with different physical chemical properties, were investigated using the batch equilibration method. Sorption kinetics demonstrated that soil-solution equilibrium was attained in <24 h. The Freundlich equation described the sorption behavior of the herbicide for all soils (R(2) > 0.99). K(f) values of the Brazilian oxisols ranged from 4.66 to 29.3, and 1/n values were ≥ 0.95. Sorption was positively correlated to %OC and clay contents. U.S. mollisol K(f) values ranged from 6.62 to 14.3; 1/n values for sorption were ≥ 0.92. K(f) values from mollisols were also positively correlated with %OC. These results suggest that indaziflam potential mobility, based solely on its sorption coefficients, would range from moderate to low in soil. Desorption was hysteretic on all soils, further decreasing its potential mobility for offsite transport.

Sorption-Desorption of Atrazine and Diuron in Soils from Southern Brazil

The objective of this study was to investigate the behavior of sorption and desorption of the herbicides atrazine (6-chloro-N 2-ethyl-N 4-isopropyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine) and diuron [3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethyleurea] in soil samples from a typical lithosequence located in the municipality of Mamborê (PR), southern Brazil. Five concentrations of 14C-atrazine and 14C-diuron were used for both herbicides (0.48, 0.96, 1.92, 3.84, and 7.69 mg L−1). Sorption of both herbicides correlated positively with the organic carbon and clay content of the soil samples. Sorption isotherms were well described by the Freundlich model. The slope values of the isotherm (N) ranged from 0.84 to 0.90 (atrazine) and from 0.75 to 0.79 (diuron) for the lithosequence samples. Sorption of diuron was high regardless of the soil texture or the concentration added. The desorption isotherms for atrazine and diuron showed good fit to the Freundlich equation (R 2 ≥ 0,87). Atrazine slope values for the desorption isotherms were similar for the different concentrations and were much lower than those observed for the sorption isotherms. Significant hysteresis was observed in the herbicide desorption. When the two herbicides were compared, it was found that diuron (N = 0.06–0.22) presented more pronounced hysteresis than atrazine. The results showed that, quantitatively, a greater atrazine fraction applied to these soils remains available to be leached in the soil profile, as compared to diuron.

Sorption Kinetics of Atrazine and Diuron in Soils from Southern Brazil

Abstract Sorption kinetics of atrazine and diuron was evaluated in soil samples from a typical landscape in Paraná. Samples were collected (0–20 cm) in a no-tillage area from Mamborê, PR, which has been cultivated under a crop rotation for the last six years. Six sampling points of the slope were selected to represent a wide range of soil chemical and physical properties found in this area. Radiolabeled tracers (14C-atrazine and 14C-diuron) were used and the radioactivity was detected by liquid scintillation counting (LSC). Sorption was accomplished for increasing equilibration periods (0.5, 1.5, 3, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h). Kinetics data fitted adequately well to Elovich equation, providing evidences that soil reaction occurs in two distinct stages: a fast, initial one followed by a slower one. During the fast phase, 34–42 and 71–79% of total atrazine and diuron applied were sorbed to soil samples. No important differences were found among combinations of soil and herbicide sorption during the slow phase. The unrealistic conditions under batch experiments should be overestimating sorption in the fast phase and underestimating diffusion in the slow phase. Sorption of both herbicides was positively correlated to organic carbon and clay contents of soils, but atrazine was much less sorbed than diuron, showing its higher potential to contaminate groundwater, specially in sandy, low organic carbon soils.

Rendimento de grãos e qualidade de sementes de soja após a aplicação de herbicidas dessecantes

Herbicides diquat (0.3kg ha-1), paraquat (0.4kg ha-1), amonium-gluphosinate (0.5kg ha-1) and carfentrazone-ethyl (30g ha-1) were sprayed to soybean plants at the R7,5 stage in order to study their influence on soybean grain yield and seed quality. There were no differences among treatments with regard to germination, vigor, seed health, weight of 100 seeds, seed moisture content and seed yield. Nevertheless amonium-gluphosinate and control treatments provided higher percentages of normal seedlings after accelerated aging, compared to the other treatments.

Winter and summer management strategies for Conyza bonariensis and Bidens pilosa control.

Conyza bonariensis is one of the most important weeds in southern Brazil. The selection of biotypes tolerant and resistant to the herbicide glyphosate has led to increasing demand for alternatives of management strategy to control this species. This work aimed to evaluate the efficiency of different winter and summer management strategy for the control of Conyza bonariensis, by using glyphosate + 2,4-D tank mixtures combined or not with residual herbicides. The different burndown alternatives were applied after corn harvest (winter burndown), associated to applications before soybean sowing (summer burndown) with a total of 15 treatments. Winter burndown options evaluated in this research were efficient in weed desiccation and provided excellent levels of residual weed control up to the next summer soybean pre-sowing. The sowing of oats after winter burndown with subsequent summer burndown with glyphosate+diclosulam + 2,4-D was found to be efficient to control Bidens pilosa. Conyza bonariensis was totally controlled in all the burndown strategies in which the herbicide 2,4-D was associated to glyphosate.

Glyphosate affects photosynthesis in first and second generation of glyphosate-resistant soybeans

The crop area planted to conventional soybeans has decreased annually while that planted to glyphosate-resistant (RR) soybean has drastically increased mainly due to the wide adoption of glyphosate in current weed management systems. With the extensive use of glyphosate, many farmers have noted visual plant injury in RR soybean varieties after glyphosate application. A new generation designated as “second generation—RR2” has been recently developed and these RR2 cultivars already are commercially available for farmers and promoted as higher yielding relative to the previous RR cultivars. However, little information is currently available about the performance of RR2 soybean beyond commercial and farmer testimonial data. Thus, an evaluation of different glyphosate rates applied in different growth stages of the first and second generation of RR soybeans, revealed a significant decrease in photosynthesis. In general, increased glyphosate rate and late applications (V6) pronounced decrease photosynthetic parameters and consequently decreased in leaf area and shoot biomass production. In contrast, low rate and early applications were less damage for the RR soybean plants, suggesting that with early applications (V2), plants probably have more time to recover from glyphosate or its metabolites effects regarding late applications.

Qualidade e produtividade de sementes de canola (Brassica napus) após aplicação de dessecantes em pré-colheita

A cultura de canola e indicada nos esquemas de rotacao de culturas, bem como para diversificacao agricola e cobertura vegetal do solo no periodo de inverno na Regiao Sul do Brasil. Contudo, a colheita mecanizada e uma das operacoes mais criticas do sistema de producao, uma vez que os frutos do tipo siliqua apresentam maturacao desuniforme, gerando grandes perdas de produtividade devido a deiscencia natural. O uso de dessecantes quimicos permite uma colheita com as siliquas em maturacao mais uniforme, porem e importante a manutencao da qualidade do produto obtido. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar o efeito da aplicacao de herbicidas dessecantes na produtividade e na qualidade fisiologica e sanitaria das sementes de canola cultivar Hyola 401. Os herbicidas utilizados foram o glufosinato de amonio (0,5 kg ha-1), carfentrazone-ethyl (0,03 kg ha-1), paraquat (0,4 kg ha-1) e diquat (0,3 kg ha-1), mais a testemunha sem aplicacao. A qualidade das sementes foi avaliada por meio dos testes de germinacao, de envelhecimento acelerado, de condutividade eletrica, de emergencia em areia, de velocidade de emergencia e de sanidade. A aplicacao dos produtos dessecantes permitiu uma antecipacao de sete dias na colheita das sementes de canola. A produtividade de sementes nao foi afetada pela dessecacao. A aplicacao do glufosinato de amonio e carfentrazone-ethyl reduziu (P<0,05) os teores de proteina das sementes. A utilizacao dos produtos quimicos nao apresentou efeitos negativos na qualidade fisiologica das sementes.