Abstracts

For weed control in processing tomato new herbicides need to be registered. Flurochloridone with metobromuron/dimethenamid-P was applied before and after transplanting to assess its efficacy and crop injury. All treatments provided good (75-90%) to excellent (>90%) efficacy in weed control. Also, all four treatments caused crop injury, whereby treatment with metobromuron caused higher damage. Further research must be conducted whith different herbicides and rates, to keep excellent efficacy but reduce crop injury.

Keywords

Processing tomato, Flurochloridone, Weed control, Efficacy, Crop injury

Acknowledgment

The work was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (Contract number: 451-03-66/2025-03/200216; 451- 03-136/2025-03/200010), FAO Project (2025): "Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Agriculture".

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