This study aimed to evaluate purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.) control using diclosulam and sulfentrazone herbicides, and to determine tubers viability in different soil depths after the herbicides application on the sugarcane crop. The trial was carried out in a randomized complete block design, with four replications, where the treatments were five doses at diclosulam (75, 100, 150, 200 and 250 g ha-1), two doses at sulfentrazone (800 and 1,000 g ha-1) and weady and no weedy control. At 110 days after herbicide application, soil subsamples collected from the row and ridge planting at depth (0-10 and 10-20 cm). The purple nutsedge tubers were found in soil sample were put to germination at greenhouse to evaluate their viability. After 45 days at application, herbicides showed controls that were considered regular to excellent (75.8% to 96.0%). In the planting row, all the herbicides doses analyzed reduced the number of dormant tubers at two depths studied in relation to control. In the ridge planting, diclosulam at 100 and 150 g ha-1 increased the mortality of tubers in 38 and 63%, respectively. The herbicide diclosulam at 150 g ha-1 showed high mortality of tubers and at 250 g ha-1 induced at the dormancy in the planting row.
Cyperus rotundus; sugarcane; herbicide; tuber
