Quality versus quantity: Spring wheat seed size and seeding rate effects on Avena fatua interference, economic returns and economic thresholds

Weed Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 351-360

  Stougaard, R N ^a,b   Xue, Q ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern Agricultural Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated crop management; Integrated weed management; Wild oat

Indexed keywords

CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP YIELD; GRASS; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEED SIZE; SEEDING; WEED; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

KALISPELL; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVENA FATUA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33745373454     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2005.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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