Citation Information

  • Title : The influence of soil tillage system upon weed development on a soybean crop.
  • Source : Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
  • Publisher : University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
  • Volume : 67
  • Issue : 1
  • Pages : 330
  • Year : 2010
  • Document Type : Journal Article
  • Language : English
  • Authors:
    • Pop, A.
  • Climates:
  • Cropping Systems: Crop-pasture rotations. Soybean. Till cropping systems.
  • Countries:

Summary

The strategy for suppressing weeds in a minimum tillage system has to be prior and different from the classical soil tillage system. A tremendous importance must be taken for the indirect methods of weed suppressing, especially crop rotation method. The soil tillage system and weed suppressing methods play a key role for the entire weeding soybean. Especially at the first stages of plant development all the weeding crops are extremely sensible for weed activity. The most common weed species that infestate soybean crops are: Avena fatua, Echinochloa crus-galli, Setaria sp., Digitaria sanguinalis, Sorghum halepense, Agropyron repens, Amaranthus retroflexus, Chenopodium album, Galinsoga parviflora, Xanthium sp., Abutilon teophrasti, Polygonum sp., Cirsium arvense, Convolvulus arvensis. The present results where obtained in Jucu experimental plots, property of the Agricultural Faculty of Cluj-Napoca. The eco-pedological conditions consisted in: faeoziom soil with a humus content of 4.72% and a pH of 6.8, multi annual precipitation with values between 550-650 mm and the average thermal regime of 8.0-8.2C. For soybean crop, applying the minimal tillage systems, an increase in weeds number, especially of perennial di-cotyledonated ones, is observed. The weeding degree is 10,5-18,4% higher in unconventional variants. The percent of perennial di-cotyledonated weeds is 10% for plough variants and reaches 14-18% in minimal tillage systems variants. In similar working conditions and same dosage of herbicides, the higher degree of weeding in unconventional variants can be put on the working system.

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