Acetochlor: Target Weeds and Efficacy Explained

Acetochlor is a widely used herbicide, suitable for corn, cotton, beans, peanuts, potatoes, rapeseed, garlic, tobacco, sunflowers, castor and scallions, etc. Acetochlor is mainly absorbed through the coleoptile of monocotyledonous plants or the hypocotyl of dicotyledonous plants, and after absorption it is conducted upward, mainly inhibiting cell growth by blocking protein synthesis, causing weed shoots and young roots to stop growing and then die.

Acetochlor has a highly effective action against annual grass weeds such as crabgrass, foxtail, goosegrass, barnyardgrass, Chinese sprangletop, shortawn foxtail, wild oat, bluegrass, hard grass and lovegrass, and it also has a certain control effect on broadleaf weeds such as plants of the Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae and Polygonaceae families, Asiatic dayflower, greater chickweed and dodder, but the effect is weaker than on grass weeds, and it is ineffective against perennial weeds.