Comparison of methods to estimate weed populations and their performance in yield loss description models

Weed Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 385-394

  Ngouajio, Mathieu ^a   McGiffen Jr , Milton E ^a   Mansfield, Shane ^a   Ogbuchiekwe, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Crosswire device; Integrated weed management; Interference; LAI 2000; LI 191 S; LI 3100; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344238480     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/0043-1745(2001)049[0385:COMTEW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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