Morphological and Metabolic Changes in Soybean Plants Cultivated in Irrigated Rice Rotation and as Affected by Imazapyr and Imazapic Herbicides Carryover

ABSTRACT: The appearance of soybean cultivars that are tolerant to herbicides from the imidazolinone group enables irrigated rice rotation conducted on Clearfield® system. The objective of this work was to evaluate the morphological and metabolic changes of soybean cultivars containing Cultivance® (CV), which is tolerant to imidazolinone, sulphonylurea toletant (STS) and Roundup Ready® (RR), which is tolerant to glyphosate as affected by carryover of increasing doses of imazapyr and imazapic herbicides mixture, applied in the management of irrigated rice crop. Thus, experiments were conducted on the field and in greenhouse, evaluating phytotoxicity, height, leaf area, shoot dry matter, as well as variables related to the secondary metabolism of plants like chlorophyll, carotenoids, hydrogen peroxide, lipid peroxidation and electrolytes leakage. Soybean cultivars RR and STS are susceptibles to the carryover of imazapyr and imazapic mixture applied in the management of irrigated rice crop, whereas the CV cultivar is resistant. The rise in the herbicide carryover dose increases the reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in soybean plants. The RR cultivar, in general, shows higher ROS production compared to the other soybean cultivars.