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Prithwiraj Dey, Tej Pratap, Sudershan Mishra, Pramit Pandit. 2018. Weed seed bank in soil as affected by different weed management practices in spring sweet corn . Indian Journal of Weed Science : 50( 3) 269- 272.







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Volume Issue Publication year Page No Type of article
50 3 2018 269-272 Research article
Weed seed bank in soil as affected by different weed management practices in spring sweet corn

Prithwiraj Dey, Tej Pratap, Sudershan Mishra, Pramit Pandit

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-8164.2018.00057.6

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Address: G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263 145

Keywords:

Atrazine

Sweet Corn

Tembotrione 

Weed seed bank



Abstract:

A field study was conducted in spring season of 2016 and 2017 on sweet corn to evaluate the effect of different weed management practices upon the weed seed bank dynamics in the soil. In the sample from seed bank studied, the per cent contribution of Cleome viscosa was highest among all the weed species before sowing and harvest stage of the crop   and was followed by Dactyloctenium aegypticum, in both the stages and years. Depth wise weed seed distribution indicated highest weed seed in 10-15 cm depth before sowing and in 0-5 cm depth at harvest stage of the crop. Effect of all the weed control treatments upon previous season’s dormant seeds was non-significant. Twice hand weeding was effective to reduce seed bank in deeper layer. Atrazine 1000 g/ha followed by tembotrione 120 g/ha and tembotrione alone 120 g/ha had caused a significant reduction in weed seed number in 0-5 and 0-10 cm layer but weed seed number at 10-15 cm layer remained  unchanged.





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