during Kharif 2019 to study the effect of pre and post emergence herbicides on soil microflora in sweet corn. The per cent decrease in the bacterial, fungal and actinomycetes count was in the range of 8.26 to 9.22 % in the weed free treatment (two hand weeding), 18.57 to 24.94 % in the treatment of weedy check (T 1 ) and 22.48 to 30.10 % in the treatments of pre and post emergence herbicides (T 3 to T 10 ) over the initial values of 24.5 x 10 7 cfu g -1 soil, 8.6 x 10 4 cfu g -1 soil and 19 x 10 6 cfu g -1 soil, respectively. Application of tembotrione @ 120 g ha -1 as post emergence herbicide (T 9 ) showed less adverse effect on soil bacterial population at harvest than the other herbicides treatments. Application of 2,4 D ethyl ester @ 1000 g ha -1 as post emergence herbicide (T 10 ) showed less adverse effect on soil fungal population than the other herbicides treatments. Application of halosulfuronmethyl @ 90 g ha -1 as post emergence herbicide (T 8 ) showed less adverse effect on soil actinomycetes population than the other herbicides treatments under study.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.