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Soil-Water Relations and Interference Between Devil's-Claw (Proboscidea louisianica) and Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Michael S. Riffle ,
Don S. Murray ,
John F. Stone  and
David L. Weeks
Michael S. Riffle
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
Don S. Murray
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
John F. Stone
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
David L. Weeks
Affiliation:
Dep. Stat., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
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Abstract

Soil water from plots containing cotton, devil's-claw, cotton with devil's-claw, and bare soil was measured throughout the growing season using a neutron probe and related to weed interference with the crop. Volumetric water content throughout the soil profile to a depth of 180 cm did not differ among treatments before the 5th or 6th week after cotton emergence. Greater water depletion occurred early in the season in plots containing devil's-claw which corresponded to a period of rapid weed growth. In plots containing only cotton, the largest reduction in water content occurred later in the season during peak bloom and early boll formation. Soil water content at depths greater than 105 cm remained unchanged in all plots throughout the season. Interference from devil's-claw reduced cotton lint yield 96% in 1986 and 46% in 1987. Higher rainfall and reduced weed populations in 1987 reduced the impact of weed interference on cotton lint yield.

Keywords

Devil's-claw, Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thellung ♯3 PROLOcotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. ‘Paymaster 145′Neutron probevolumetric water contentsoil water depletioncompetitionunicorn-plantPROLO
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 39 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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