Mixtures of narrowleaf and broadleaf herbicides, with or without their respective surfactants, were evaluated as to postemergence selectivity for weed control in a soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) cv. IAC-8 field experiment. Four narrowleaf herbicides (haloxyfop-methyl, HM; sethoxydim, S; quizalofop-ethyl, QE and fluazyfop-p-butyl, FpB) and four broadleaf herbicides (chlorimuron-ethyl, CE; fomesafen, Fom; fluoroglycofen, Flu and lactofen, Lac) were applied either alone or mixed. Two controls, manual weeding and no weeding, were included. The surfactants increased the fitotoxicity of the herbicides. The most effective narrowleaf herbicides applied either alone or in mixtures, in controlling Eleusine indica and narrowleaf weeds were HM, QE and FpB. No significant differences were observed among the four narrowleaf herbicides for the control of Digitaria horizontalis Willd. However, the best mixture combinations were those with QE or HM. The best control of Mollugo verticillata L. was obtained with Lac and mixtures of Fom and QE, S and HM with their respective surfactants. The tank mixtures resulted in antagonistic effects for the control of E. indica, D. horizontalis and narrowleaf weeds. Antagonistic effects were observed in the control of M. verticillata, when Lac was mixed with the following herbicides: S, HM, QE or FpB. Sinergistic effects were observed in the control of this species with mixture of Fom with S, HM and FpB. A possible interaction among the mixtures of herbicides with their surfactants was observed in E. indica control, when the mixtures with narrowleaf herbicides, S or HM, were used, alone or mixed with their respective surfactants. Soybean production was not affected by the tested herbicides treatments, when compared with the manual weeded control.
soybean; mixtures of herbicides; surfactants; antagonism; sinergism
