G. Lal, S. Hiremath, K. Chandra
Mar 15, 2017
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International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences
Abstract
Imazethapyr is a broad spectrum herbicide used as early post-emergence in pulses, oilseeds and leguminous crops. Imazethapyr is an imidazole compound used as a selective herbicide. The compound controls weeds by reducing the levels of three branched-chain aliphatic amino acids, isoleucine, leucine and valine, through the inhibition of aceto-lactate synthase (ALS), an enzyme common to the biosynthetic pathway for these amino acids. Imazethapyr is used as post emergence or early post emergence at 20-25 DAS of soybean, greengram, blackgram and sunflower to control a variety of weeds.