Description:

AGRIVENTURE GLYPHO SILVER is a broad-spectrum, non-selective, contact post-emergence herbicide. It effectively controls a wide range of annual and perennial grasses and broadleaf weeds in crops like cotton and tea. It works by inhibiting the enzyme glutamine synthetase, causing a rapid buildup of toxic ammonia in plant tissues.

Technical content: Glufosinate Ammonium 13.5% SL

Key Features & Benefits:

• Broad-Spectrum Control: Highly effective against both grasses and broadleaf weeds, including hard-to-kill species like Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass) and Cyperus rotundus (Nutgrass).
• Unique Mode of Action: It works by inhibiting the glutamine synthetase enzyme, causing a rapid build-up of toxic ammonia in plant tissues that leads to cell death.
• Fast Visible Results: It acts through contact, causing weeds to yellow and dry up, with visible desiccation typically appearing within 2 to 4 days of application.
• Environmentally Safe: It rapidly degrades in soil (with a half-life of roughly 9 days), leaving no harmful soil residues and minimizing the risk of groundwater contamination.
• Crop Safety: When used as a directed spray (e.g., using a spray hood) in plantation crops like cotton and tea, it has minimal root absorption and a low risk of spray drift injury.
• Resistance Management: Because of its unique mechanism, it is an excellent rotation tool for mitigating weed resistance to other commonly used herbicides like glyphosate.

Crops suitability: Tea, Cotton. Maize, Rubber, Banana

Commonly used for:

• Specific Crops: Primarily used in cotton and tea plantations.
• Target Weeds: Highly effective against both annual and perennial weeds, including tough-to-kill species like Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass), Cyperus rotundus (Nut grass), and Digitaria marginata.
• Glyphosate Resistance: Frequently used as an alternative or rotational option to manage and delay weed resistance to glyphosate.
• Non-Crop Areas: Used for general vegetation control in industrial sites and non-arable lands.

Mode of entry:  Contact

Mode of action:

• Enzyme Inhibition: Once inside the plant, it irreversibly inhibits the glutamine synthetase enzyme (Herbicide Site of Action Group 10).
• Ammonia Accumulation: This crucial enzyme is responsible for converting glutamate and ammonia into the essential amino acid glutamine. By blocking it, phytotoxic levels of ammonia build up within plant cells.
• Membrane Disruption: The high concentrations of ammonia destroy cell membrane integrity, which allows cellular contents to leak. It also rapidly disrupts photosynthesis and amino acid synthesis.
• Desiccation & Death: Affected weeds suffer from rapid yellowing (chlorosis), leaf desiccation (drying out), and complete plant death within a few days.

Mode of application: Foliar spray

Dose: 100ml in 15-liter water or 800 – 1000ml per 1 acre