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Pennsylvania Smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum) Interference in Soybeans (Glycine max)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

H. D. Coble  and
R. L. Ritter
H. D. Coble
Affiliation:
Dep. Crop Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27650
R. L. Ritter
Affiliation:
Dep. Crop Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27650
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Abstract

The effects of Pennsylvania smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum L.) interference in soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘Pickett 71’] were studied in the field under a naturally occurring weed population. Soybean seed yield was reduced an average of 13% by a density of eight Pennsylvania smartweed plants per 10 m of row. Greater yield reductions of 21, 37, and 62% resulted from full-season interference by densities of 16, 32, and 240 weeds per 10 m of row, respectively. Fewer than five weeds per 10 m of row did not significantly reduce crop yield. A natural population of 240 weeds per 10 m of row did not reduce soybean yield if the period of interference was limited to 6 weeks or less after crop emergence. However, more than 6 weeks of weed interference resulted in significant yield reduction. Conversely, if the crop was kept weed-free for a period of 4 weeks or more after emergence, seed yield was not reduced. No allelopathic interaction between the two species was observed in greenhouse studies using a recirculating nutrient solution and alternate pots of soybeans and Pennsylvania smartweed.

Keywords

Competitionallelopathy
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , November 1978 , pp. 556 - 559
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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