Biological weed management is a system that incorporates the use of diverse biological organisms and biologically-based approaches including allelopathy, crop competition, and other cultural practices to significantly reduce weed densities in a manner that is similar to use of chemical herbicides alone. Interest in developing effective biological weed management systems continues to increase be...

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedlings were grown in competition with native weeds using soil and seed bank collected from recently chopped and burned areas near Appomattox, Virginia. One-year-old seedlings were planted and weeds allowed to germinate from the native seed bank while being exposed to CO(2) (ambient and elevated - approximately 700 ppm) and water (water stressed and well watered...

breeding and cropping cultivars with high weed competitiveness have played an important role in the non-chemical weed management. this experiment was carried out in order to study the effect of nitrogen on weed tolerance and competition indices of five wheat cultivars at the research field of agricultural faculty, university of mohaghegh ardabili, during 2010-2011 growing season. experimental f...

in order to evaluate the competitive ability (ca) of canola cultivars against wild mustard, two experiments were conducted at the gorgan institute in iran during the 2005-2007 cropping seasons. the experimental factors were canola cultivars (1st year: zarfam, option500, hayola330, hayola401, talayh, rgs003 and sarigol; 2nd year: zarfam, hayola330, rgs003 and option500) and weed density (1st yea...

ABSTRACT The Barbados gooseberry crop has agricultural potential, but little information is available regarding cropping practices. More on weed interference in will support growers to take management decisions. objective of this work was study initial growth and development under the weeds. experiment conducted a completely randomized design, with five treatments, composed competition four spe...

Large areas of abandoned cropland in the world can be reforested with native shrubs and trees to gain a number of environmental benefits. In abandoned Mediterranean croplands, establishment and growth of woody plants are limited by high radiation and low water availability during summer, and weeds are strong competitors for resources, particularly water. We conducted a 3-year experiment in cent...

Weeds are commonly assumed to induce yield loss because of resource competition. However, there is growing empirical evidence that the picture much more complex, fertilizer inputs, by modifying level resources and weeding removing some weed species, affect outcome crop-weed interaction. We assess how two important crop production inputs - nitrogen (N) fertilization weed-control a fundamental no...

Among agricultural pesticides, herbicides comprise the most employed group in agriculture. The main function of these chemicals is to control weeds, weed competition reduces produc‐ tivity, without significantly impacting crop yield. Weeds tend to compete with crops by extracting essential elements from the soil, water, intercepting light and CO2, interfering in the culture development and affe...

This paper explores the benefits of competition control treatments in establishing plantations now and into the next rotation, -More is known about the economic outcome of woody control treatments than about herbaceous. control; thus, the former are given the most attention. But the early growth benefits of herbaceous weed control treatments are also reviewed, with the appropriate application m...