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Weed Seed in Irrigation Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Hollis Shull*
Affiliation:
Southwest Branch, Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Brawley, California
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Abstract

A year's study of the kinds of weed seeds caught in an 18-mesh copper screen intercepting half the canal width found seeds of 20 species or genera. Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) was found every month of the year; saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) only in March; others in 2 to 10 months of the year.

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Copyright © 1962 Weed Science Society of America 

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