Abstract:On the basis of the determination of susceptibility of 35 species composite plants to fluazifop-butyl, the selectivity and their mechanisms in composite plants were studied with electrolyte leakage and MDA synthesis in some plants. Among 35 species tested composite plants, only Acanthospermum hispidum, Acanthospermum australe and Sonchus asper seedlings showed the susceptibility to fluazifop-butyl, while the other 32 species were tolerant to the herbicide even at 100μmol/L concentration. In the further experiment on 20 species of 35 species, the distinct electrolyte leakage and MDA synthesis were showed only in the susceptive plants seedlings of A.hispidum and S.asper. Under the treatment of 100μmol/L concentration, the conductivities were 28.56 fold and 1.39 fold higher after 96h and the MDA were 1.72 fold and 1.33 fold higher than non-herbicide control after 24h, respectively. The results suggested that fluazifop-butyl had very high selectivity to the composite plants tested, and the selective mechanism might be related to the lipid peroxidation and structure disruption of membrane in susceptive plant seedlings.