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Effect of Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Row Spacing, Seeding Rate, and Cultivar on Yield Loss from Cheat (Bromus secalinus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Jeffrey A. Koscelny
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Okla. State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
Thomas F. Peeper
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Okla. State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
John B. Solie
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. Engr., Okla. State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078
Stanley G. Solomon Jr.
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. Engr., Okla. State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted in Oklahoma to determine the effects of row spacing, cultivar, seeding rate, and water or ammonium polyphosphate fertilizer injection in the row at seeding, on the competitiveness of hard red winter wheat with cheat. Decreasing row spacing from 23 to 8 cm increased yield of weed-free wheat at two of three locations and cheat-infested wheat in six of ten experiments. Increasing seeding rate from 265 to 530 seeds m-2 increased wheat yield. Injecting water at 20 ml m-1 of row at seeding did not increase wheat emergence or yield. Cheat seed production was not consistently suppressed by any one cultivar. Juvenile growth habit was unrelated to wheat competitiveness.

Type
Research
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 Weed Science Society of America 

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