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Pre-emergence herbicide produced a higher number of leaves at 12 WAS.
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t0“Comparative effect of weed control methods on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) in maize”
e1“Pre-emergence herbicide produced taller plants at 8 and 12 WAS and higher number of leaves at 12 WAS”
Title
Comparative effect of weed control methods on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) in maize
Josephine Olutayo Amosun; O. A. Aluko; Donatus Obinna Ilem African Journal of Plant Science 2021. doi:10.5897/ajps2020.2114
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Pre-emergence herbicide produced taller maize plants at 8 and 12 WAS.
- Intervention effect Weed biomass under hand weeding did not differ from no weeding despite two hand weedings.
- Intervention effect Herbicides and cover crops gave better weed control than both weed checks (hand weeding and no weeding) at 12 WAS.
- Intervention effect Pre-emergence weed control was 4 times better than no weeding at 8 WAS.
- Intervention effect Post-emergence weed control was 7 times better than no weeding at 8 WAS.
- Intervention effect Centro cover crop weed control was 8 times better than no weeding at 8 WAS.
- Intervention effect Maize yield of 2.21 t/ha from Primextra Gold was significantly higher than yields from the other treatments.
- Intervention effect Aminoforce at 1.6 l/ha reduced maize yield by 24.5% compared with Primextra Gold.
- Intervention effect Centro reduced maize yield by 27.7% compared with Primextra Gold.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding reduced maize yield by 34.4% compared with Primextra Gold.
- Intervention effect Puero reduced maize yield by 40.8% compared with Primextra Gold.
- Intervention effect No weeding reduced maize yield by 94.2% compared with Primextra Gold.
- Intervention effect Centro provided long term weed control.
- Intervention effect The herbicides provided early protection for the maize plants.