This work aimed to evaluate the degree of tolerance of Italian ryegrass genotypes to the herbicide glyphosate. Thus, four experiments were installed, one for each phenological stage (two leaves, four tillers, pre-flowering, and grain formation). The treatments consisted of the combination of the two genotypes and six rates of glyphosate (240; 480; 960; 1,920; 3,840 and 7,680 g a.e. ha-1) and a check without glyphosate application, in a complete randomized block design and four replications. The parameters analyzed were control percentage and shoot dry biomass. Results were submitted to analysis of variance and subsequently adjusted to non-linear log of dose-response curves, and from these models control values were calculated at 50, 80, 90 and 99%. The Italian ryegrass genotypes presented differential susceptibility to the herbicide glyphosate, with the tetraploid genotype being more tolerant to the herbicide than the diploid. The degree of differential tolerance, measured by the differential tolerance factor between the genotypes, is 1.6 times the glyphosate dose in the tetraploid genotype compared to the diploid genotype. The phenological stages of plant development of both the genotypes studied affected the degree of tolerance to glyphosate. The variable shoot dry biomass presented the same differential tendency between the diploid and tetraploid genotypes presented by the parameter visual control percentage.
Italian ryegrass; ESPS-inhibitor; herbicide
