Screening of herbicides for use in tobacco plantations

Code (CO)	MSI99P0062
Author (AU)	Mc Intyre, G. Barbe, C.
Title - English (ET)	Screening of herbicides for use in tobacco plantations
Document Type(DT)	Periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	1989
Series (SE)	Revue agric. sucr. Ile Maurice
Source (SO)	68: 66-68
Notes (NO)	Published 1991
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En Fr
Abstract (AB)	A brief description of the method of establishing a tobacco plantation is given. Formerly, growers had to essentially resort to hand-weeding to clean their fields, whereas according to the results obtained in the trials described in this paper, at least two chemicals, oxadiazon and diphenamid, can be safely used as a pre-transplanting treatment. Other chemicals, namely, oryzalin, dinitramine and metobromuron have proved phytotoxic to the crop. Oryzalin and diphenamid, applied as post-transplanting treatments have also shown an unacceptable level of phytotoxicity. Oxadiazon at 1 kg a.i./ha has been the best treatment, combining crop safety and efficacy on weeds.
Descriptors - English (DE)	HERBICIDES TOBACCO WEED CONTROL WEEDS
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Tobacco
Sort Key 2 (K2)	Weed control
Date record entered (DA)	1991-12-06
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Affiliation (AF)	Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute
Location (LO)	LIB
Processing status (PS)	CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)	COWA