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Effect of Soil pH, Fertility, and Herbicides on Weed Control and Quality of Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) Turf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

B. Jack Johnson  and
Robert E. Burns
B. Jack Johnson
Affiliation:
Univ. of Georgia, Georgia Stn., Experiment, GA 30212
Robert E. Burns
Affiliation:
Univ. of Georgia, Georgia Stn., Experiment, GA 30212
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Abstract

Large crabgrass [Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. ♯ DIGSA] control was higher when either DCPA (dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate) or napropamide [2-(α-naphthoxy)-N,N-diethylpropionamide] was applied to bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. ‘Common’] growing in soil with a pH of 5 than in soil with a pH of 6.4 in 2 of 3 yr. Soil pH did not influence the response of large crabgrass to oxadiazon [2-tert-butyl-4(2,4-dichloro-5-isopropoxyphenyl)-Δ2-1,3,4-oxadiazolin-5-one] or benefin (N-butyl-N-ethyl-α,α,α-trifluoro-2,6-dinitro-p-toluidine). Herbicides alone did not produce high-quality turf unless fertilizer was applied annually at 300 kg N/ha or more. Bermudagrass quality was higher after three yearly applications of 300 kg N/ha or more of fertilizer when soil pH was 5 than when soil pH was 5.6 or 6.4.

Keywords

Digitaria sanguinalisTaraxacum officinalebensulidebenefinoxadiazonDCPADIGAATAROF
Type
Weed Control and Herbicide Technology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 366 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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