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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 1583-1591.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202306.010

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Safety profile evaluation of different herbicides used on peach rootstock seedlings

HUANG Chenyan1,2, GUO Lei2, SONG Hongfeng2, SHEN Zhijun2, ZHANG Binbin2, MA Ruijuan2, YU Mingliang1,2*   

  1. 1College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;
    2Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing 210014, China
  • Received:2022-10-12 Accepted:2023-04-11 Online:2023-06-15 Published:2023-12-15

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Abstract: To screen out suitable herbicides for peach nurseries, we treated the potted seedlings of the peach rootstock ‘Nemaguard’ with eleven herbicides under recommended doses to investigate the changes of physiological indices and comprehensively evaluate the safety of different herbicides using principal component analysis (PCA). The results showed that soil application of quizalofop-p exhibited no detectable phytotoxicity on rootstock seedlings, while the remaining herbicides generated multiple symptoms, including green loss, wilting, spot, and withering. Starane caused rapid wilting and death, with a 100.0% phytotoxicity index (PI). Soil application of n-(phosphonomethyl)glycine, glufosinate-ammonium, acetochlor, and MCPA-Na showed a PI＞65.0%. As compared with the control, all herbicides inhibited leaf area growth to varying degrees, with a 10.0%-56.2% and 5.8%-44.4% reduction in young leaf area and mature leaf area, respectively. All herbicides, except quizalofop-p, increased the electrolyte permeability of leaf and root tip cells by 21.2%-145.0% and 36.9%-291.4%, respectively, and significantly inhibited root growth. The total root length, root surface area, root volume, and the number of root tips significantly decreased by 37.3%-75.3%, 35.7%-83.0%, 44.3%-89.9%, and 42.6%-73.7%, respectively. Although net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and transpiration rate (Tr) of leaves were not significantly affected by quizalofop-p, mesotrione-atrazine, MCPA-Na·bentazone, bensulfuron-methyl·quinclorac, and bensulfuron-methyl·acetochlor, there was significant reduction of 29.6%, 28.9%, 28.4% and 27.9% in Pn and 21.9%, 29.2%, 26.4%, and 19.7% in Tr post soil application of n-(phosphonomethyl)glycine, glufosinate-ammonium, acetochlor, and MCPA-Na. The overall safety ranking of the 11 examined herbicides is as follows: quizalofop-p>bensulfuron-methyl·acetochlor>bensulfuron-methyl·quinclorac>esotrione·atrazine> auizalofop-p·fluoroglycofen>acetochlor>MCPA-Na·bentazone>MCPA-Na>n-(phosphonomethyl)glycine>glufosinate-ammonium>sterane.

Key words: peach rootstock, herbicide, safety, comprehensive evaluation