Abstract:
Eleusine indica is currently considered as world's fifth worst weed which caused
problem in agriculture sector in more than 60 countries. In Malaysia, it causes a major
threat in the oil palm plantation area. This study aims to screen for the herbicide
resistance and susceptible biotypes namely glyphosate, fluazifop-p-butyl or
glufosinate in Selangor, Johor, Kelantan and Pahang. In this study 14 different
population involving farms and plantation areas were screened. From the 14
populations, four populations were detected to be resistance towards glyphosate,
which involves farm of sugar cane, Kuala Selangor, Ciku farm, Selayang, Vegetable
farm, Sekinchan, Selangor and oil palm nursery, Layang-layang, Johor with the
percentage of survivability of 70.25, 86.6%, 86.4% and 92.3% respectively.
