CONTROL OF WILD OATS AND TARTARY BUCKWHEAT WITH MIXTURES OF METRIBUZIN AND VARIOUS POSTEMERGENCE WILD OAT HERBICIDES
The phytotoxicity of difenzoquat, flamprop, barban and diclofop to wild oats (Avena fatua L.) was reduced when each of these herbicides was applied in a tank mixture with metribuzin or metribuzin + MCPA. When metribuzin was applied immediately following, or 6 days after the wild oat herbicides, or when the inert ingredients in the metribuzin formulation were tank-mixed with each of the wild oat herbicides, no reduction in phytotoxicity to wild oat occurred, suggesting that the antagonism may be occurring in the spray tank as a result of an interaction between the metribuzin active ingredient and each of the wild oat herbicides. No loss of metribuzin or metribuzin + MCPA phytotoxicity to Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum L. Beauv.) occurred when these herbicides were tank-mixed with each of the four wild oat herbicides.