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The Effect of Rotation and In-Crop Weed Management on the Germinable Weed Seedbank after 10 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert H. Gulden ,
Derek W. Lewis ,
Jane C. Froese ,
Rene C. Van Acker ,
Gary B. Martens ,
Martin H. Entz ,
Doug A. Derksen  and
Lindsay W. Bell
Robert H. Gulden*
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, 222 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Derek W. Lewis
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, 222 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Jane C. Froese
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, 222 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Rene C. Van Acker
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Gary B. Martens
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, 222 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Martin H. Entz
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, 222 Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe Road, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Doug A. Derksen
Affiliation:
Brandon Research Centre, P.O. Box 1000A RR3, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon MB R7A 5Y3, Canada
Lindsay W. Bell
Affiliation:
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems/APSRU, P.O. Box 102, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Agricultural production systems that reduce the use of in-crop herbicides could greatly reduce risks of environmental damage and the development of herbicide-resistant weeds. Few studies have investigated the long-term effects of in-crop herbicide omissions on weed seedbank community size and structure. A crop-rotation study was sampled 10 yr after a strictly annual rotation and an annual/perennial rotation were exposed to different in-crop herbicide omission treatments. In-crop herbicides were applied either in all annual crops (control), omitted from oats only, or omitted from both flax and oats. Seedbank densities were greatest when in-crop herbicides were omitted from flax and oats, and this treatment also reduced crop yield. Shannon-Wiener diversity differed among crops in the annual crop rotation and among herbicide omission treatments in the perennial rotation. Herbicide omissions changed the weed-community structure in flax and in wheat and canola crops in the annual rotation enough to warrant alternate control methods in some treatments. The magnitude of the effects on the seedbank parameters depended largely on the competitive ability of the crop in which herbicides were omitted. No yield response to omitting herbicides in oats indicated that standard weed management practices have reduced weed populations below yield-loss thresholds.

Keywords

Canola, Brassica napus L. BRSNNoats, Avena sativa L. AVESAflax, Linum usitatissimum L. LIUUSwheat, Triticum aestivum L. TRZAXCommunity assemblycrop rotationherbicide omissionweed seedbank
Type
Weed Management
Information
Weed Science , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 553 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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