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Weed Seed Production as Influenced by Glyphosate Applications at Flowering Across a Weed Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Eric R. Walker*
Affiliation:
Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, 115 Plant Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Lawrence R. Oliver
Affiliation:
Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, 115 Plant Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Late-season weed infestations often do not affect yields and are allowed to mature and contribute seed to the soil seedbank, ensuring the future establishment of competitive weed complexes. Effective long-term weed management strategies must incorporate practices to reduce late-season weed seed production by weed complexes. Field studies were conducted to determine the effects of late-season glyphosate applications on seed production of barnyardgrass, Palmer amaranth, pitted morningglory, prickly sida, and sicklepod. Although sequential 0.42-kg ae/ha glyphosate applications initiated when the first weed species in the complex flowered and repeated every 10 d was the most effective treatment and reduced seed production of all species by ≥ 95%, the most practical treatment was a single 0.84-kg/ha glyphosate application at pitted morningglory flowering, suppressing seed production of barnyardgrass, Palmer amaranth, pitted morningglory, prickly sida, and sicklepod by 88, 83, 98, 95, and 99%, respectively. This research demonstrates that annual contributions by a weed complex to the soil seedbank can be significantly and practically reduced by a single late-season glyphosate application.

Type
Weed Biology and Competition
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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