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The Effects of Fresh Water Storage on the Germination of Certain Weed Seeds: I. White top, Russian knapweed, Canada thistle, morning glory, and poverty weed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

V. F. Bruns  and
L. W. Rasmussen
V. F. Bruns
Affiliation:
Division of Weed Investigations, BPISAE, U. S. Departmen of Agriculture
L. W. Rasmussen
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department, Washington State College
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Water, especially water used for irrigation, has been adjudged for many years an important agent in the dissemination of weed seeds. Egginton and Robbins (7) found a total of 81 different species of weeds in 156 weed seed catches from three different ditches during 1918 and 1919 and determined that the number of weed seeds passing a given point on a ditch which averaged 12 feet in width during a period of 24 hours may reach several millions. Hope (11) analyzed a considerable number of weed seed catches from irrigation channels during 1924 and 1925. He computed that 1,674,030 seeds of 13 different weed species which occurred on the surface and to a depth of 1.57 inches in one 10-foot ditch passed during a 24-hour period on September 2, 1925. Further computations illustrated that the flow of weed seeds would amount to a deposition of 170,800 seeds per acre of land in one 6-inch irrigation. The latter computations were based on the assumption that the seeds were distributed uniformly over the cross section of the ditch at the point of catch.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 138 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 Weed Science Society of America 

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