Two experiments were carried out in a greenhouse, belonging to the Departamento de Defesa Fitissanitária da Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias de Jaboticabal/UNESP, with the purpose of evaluating the selectivity of different used post-emergence herbicides on alfafa plants. The experimental design was completely randomized to evaluate the phytotoxical effects of following herbicides: MSMA, clethodim plus mineral oil, lactofen, fluazifop-p-butil, fomesafen plus mineral oil, haloxyfop-methyl plus mineral oil, chlorimuron-ethyl, halosulfuron plus mineral oil, nicosulfuron, acifluorfen, imazethapyr, bentazon plus mineral oil and cyanazine plus mineral oil. The herbicides visual phytotoxical effects, plant height, and shoot production of dry matter, on the period of initial development and after the first regrowth of these plants were evaluated. N the second experiment, the same scheme for installing and carrying out was used, using different doses of MSMA, chlorimuronethyl, imazethapyr, bentazon, bentazon plus mineral oil, clethodin, clethodim plus mineral oil and bentazon plus MSMA. The most selective herbicides for alfafa were haloxyfop-methyl, fluazifop-p-butil, fenoxaprop-ethyl, MSMA, imazethapyr, bentazon and clethodim. (isolated and addicionated of mineral oil).
Medicago sativa; green house; chemical control