Cyclosulfamuron

Use

Cyclosulfamuron (AC 322140) herbicide was launched in 1997 by American Cyanamid and is marketed by BASF for control of a wide range of broadleaf weeds and sedge species in rice, wheat, and barley. Rice weeds controlled with greater 90% efficiency at an application rate of 45–60 g a.i. Selectivity in the rice paddy is achieved due to various factors, including rapid metabolic degradation of the herbicide in rice shoots, placement of rice seedlings during transplanting, and the compound’s soil‐binding properties, which retain cyclosulfamuron in the upper soil layer of the paddy. At application rates of 25–50 g a.i. ha?1, cyclosulfamuron can also be used in cereal crops for pre‐ and post‐emergent control of several important broadleaf weeds, such as Veronica persica, V. hederifolia, G. aparine, Matricaria spp., and P. convolvulus.