Occasional mouldboard ploughing slows evolution of resistance and reduces long-term weed populations in no-till systems

Michael Renton and Ken C. Flower

Agricultural Systems, 2015, vol. 139, issue C, 66-75

Abstract: The greater reliance of no-till (NT) cropping systems on herbicides can exacerbate weed resistance to herbicides and an occasional mouldboard plough (MB) has been proposed as a useful weed control technique, because it buries the weed seeds at a depth where most cannot germinate.

Keywords: Conservation agriculture; No-till; Soil residual herbicides; Mouldboard ploughing; Weed resistance; Individual-based model; Trifluralin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2015.06.005

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