Rotation length, canola variety and herbicide resistance system affect weed populations and yield

Weed Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 726-734

  Cathcart, R Jason ^a   Topinka, A Keith ^b   Kharbanda, Prem ^c   Lange, Ralph ^c   Yang, Rong Cai ^a   Hall, Linda M ^b  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Herbicide resistant; Rotation length; Shannon's diversity index; Species diversity; Variety comparison

Indexed keywords

CANOLA; CROP YIELD; DISEASE RESISTANCE; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; WEED;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ELLERSLIE; NORTH AMERICA; STRATHMORE; WARBURG;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

EID: 33750316301     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/WS-05-041R1.1     Document Type: Article

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