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Herbicide Symptoms

by Pat Clay, Kai Umeda and Bill McCloskey

Bipyridilium herbicides

  • Foliar applied
  • Rapid burndown activity
  • Non-selective grass and broadleaf weeds

Gramoxone Max (paraquat) -

  • Rapid desiccation of leaf tissue (on purslane)

Photo of desiccated purslane plants.

  • Leaf tip burn (on corn)
  • Necrotic lesions

Photo of a corn plant with tip burn and necrotic lesions.

  • Necrotic spots with red halo (on cotton)

Photo of cotton plant with necrotic spots on the leaves.


Diphenylether herbicides

Goal (oxyfluorfen) -

  • Bronzing of contacted leaf tissue (on cotton)

Photo of cotton leaves with bronzing.

Photo of bronzing on cantaloupes.

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Erin Taylor, etaylor@cals.arizona.edu Extension Agent, Field & Veg Crops
Kai Umeda, kumeda@ag.arizona.edu Area Extension Agent, Vegetable Crops
William B. McCloskey, wmcclosk@ag.arizona.edu Extension Weed Specialist
College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Material written September 2002.


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