Weed control and crop tolerance to propane flaming as influenced by the time of day

Crop Protection

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Ulloa, Santiago M ^a   Datta, Avishek ^b   Bruening, Chris ^c   Gogos, George ^c   Arkebauer, Timothy J ^d   Knezevic, Stevan Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS ESPE   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response curves; Non chemical weed control; Organic weed control; Relative leaf water content

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; MAIZE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; PROPANE; SOIL SURFACE; SOYBEAN; TOLERANCE; WATER CONTENT; WEED CONTROL;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; GLYCINE MAX; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA VIRIDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80054074409     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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