Plant-plant interactions that change along environmental gradients can be affected by different combinations of environmental characteristics, such as the species and planting density ratios. Suaeda salsa and Scirpus planiculumis are regionally dominant species in the Shuangtai estuarine wetland. Compared with non-clonal S. salsa, clonal S. planiculumis has competitive advantages because of its...

abstract a field experiment was conducted at iranian plant protection research farm in karaj during 2009 to evaluate the effects of diffrent planting patterns, times of mechanical control and herbicides application on weeds density and biomass in sugar beet farms. the experimental design was split–split plot based on randomized complete block design (rcbd) with four replications. planting patte...

This paper employed the endogenous switching regression and propensity score matching methods to analyse the impact of row-planting technology on rice productivity using 470 rice farms in Northern Ghana. The empirical findings showed that the adoption of row-planting technology exerted greater positive impact on rice yields of smallholder farmers. In addition, rice yields of adopters and non-ad...

Planting date of soybean, Glycine max, influenced winter survival of Pratylenchus brachyurus in microplots at two locations in North Carolina. Delayed planting resulted in a linear decrease (P = 0.05) in the numbers of P. brachyurus at soybean harvest. Effects of planting date on nematode numbers persisted over winter, indicating that survival in the absence of a host is density independent. Co...

“Morphologically improved” seedlings (large-diameter seedlings grown at low nursery spacings) have a higher probability of survival (about 5% better) than regular seedlings since they have larger root systems, a higher root-weight ratio (root dry weight/seedling dry weight), and have a greater root growth potential. In addition, these seedlings will grow faster during the first several years af...

the application time of weed control methods due to population dynamics of this species is one of the most important aspects of weed management. in this study tried to use four sigmoidal functions (logistic, gompertz, richards and weibull) and to select the best fit by using r2adj , rmse and aicc. our results showed that the seedling models of every weed are different from one another and the m...