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Ornamental Plant Safety and Weed Control with Indaziflam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2025

Jatinder S Aulakh
Affiliation:
Associate Weed Scientist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Windsor Valley Laboratory, Windsor, CT, USA.
Anthony Witcher
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Tennessee State University, Otis L. Floyd Nursery Research Center, College of Agriculture, McMinnville, TN, USA.
Vipan Kumar*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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*Corresponding author: Vipan Kumar, Associate Professor (ORCID: 0000-0002-8301-5878), Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, 1115 Bradfield Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. E-mail: [email protected]
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Indaziflam was evaluated in Connecticut and Tennessee, USA, for weed control and safety of container-grown ornamental plants. Indaziflam was applied at 49, 98, or 196 g ha-1 to container-grown ornamental plants on an outdoor gravel pad and preemergence or early postemergence to weeds in greenhouse. Ornamental plants were treated twice annually in 2020 and 2021 in Connecticut, and in 2019 and 2020 in Tennessee, with approximately six weeks between applications. Chinese pyramid juniper, common juniper, eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, and Norway spruce in Connecticut, USA, and 'Andorra Compacta’ creeping juniper and 'Black Dragon’ Japanese cedar, ‘Blue Rug’ creeping juniper, and ‘Blue Pfitzer’ Chinese pyramid juniper in Tennessee, USA, were not injured with indaziflam regardless of rate applied. Preemergence application of indaziflam reduced densities of creeping woodsorrel, hairy bittercress, giant foxtail, and large crabgrass 72 to 100%, depending upon the indaziflam rate applied, by 28 d after treatment (DAT). When applied early postemergence, indaziflam provided 97 to 99% control of creeping woodsorrel (1- to 2-leaf), fringed willowherb (4- to 6-leaf), hairy bittercress (cotyledon to 1-leaf), and mouse-ear chickweed (2- to 4-leaf) by 28 DAT. Compared with the nontreated control, the total fresh shoot biomass reduction was 86 to 100% and 78 to 100% following preemergence or postemergence applications. Indaziflam offers a new site-of-action with excellent safety and weed control in the tested ornamental plants.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Weed Science Society of America