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Efficacy and Crop Response to Glufosinate-Based Weed Management in PAT-Transformed Sweet Corn (Zea mays)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Lee R. Van Wychen ,
R. Gordon Harvey ,
Mark J. Vangessel ,
Thomas L. Rabaey  and
David J. Bach
Lee R. Van Wychen*
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
R. Gordon Harvey
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Mark J. Vangessel
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Georgetown, DE 19947
Thomas L. Rabaey
Affiliation:
Pillsbury Agricultural Research, LeSueur, MN 56058
David J. Bach
Affiliation:
Pillsbury Agricultural Research, LeSueur, MN 56058
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

Field studies were conducted at Arlington, WI, in 1996 and 1997 and at Georgetown, DE, and LeSueur, MN, in 1997 to determine weed control efficacy, crop injury, and yield response of PAT-transformed sweet corn to glufosinate-based weed management. Sequential applications of glufosinate 10 to 18 d apart at 0.4 and 0.3 kg ai/ha controlled common lambsquarters, common ragweed, velvetleaf, wild-proso millet, and fall panicum 90% or better at all locations. Weed control varied little among 0.3, 0.4, or 0.3 and 0.3 (sequential) kg/ha glufosinate rates. Glufosinate applied alone, with, or following atrazine controlled velvetleaf 90% or greater but was less consistent on common ragweed and common lambsquarters (73 to 100%). Atrazine plus metolachlor applied preemergence (PRE) and glufosinate applied alone postemergence (POST) provided inconsistent wild-proso millet and fall panicum control (43 to 99%). Metolachlor followed by glufosinate improved consistency of grass control (> 76%). Glufosinate followed by cultivation provided 80% or greater control of velvetleaf and wild-proso millet. Glufosinate did not injure or delay maturity of PAT-transformed sweet corn. Sweet corn treated with glufosinate resulted in yields greater than or equal to the sweet corn that was hand-weeded or received a standard herbicide treatment.

Keywords

Atrazine, 6-chloro-N-ethyl-N'-(1-methylethyl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamineglufosinate, 2-amino-4-(hydroxymethylphosphinyl)butanoic acidmetolachlor, 2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl)acetamidecommon lambsquarters, Chenopodium album L. # CHEALcommon ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. # AMBELfall panicum, Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. # PANDIvelvetleaf, Abutilon theophrasti Medicus # ABUTHwild-proso millet, Panicum miliaceum L. ssp. ruderale (Kitagawa) Tzevelev. # PANMIsweet corn, Zea mays L. ‘GH 0937.'Herbicide combinationscultivationtransgenic sweet cornAbutilon theophrastiAmbrosia artemisiifoliaChenopodium albumPanicum dichotomiflorumPanicum miliaceumABUTHAMBELCHEALPANDIPANMIGS, glutamine synthetasePAT, phosphinothricin-N-acetyl transferase genePOST, postemergencePRE, preemergence
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 104 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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