Claim · model-written summary
Adding fomesafen preplant improved Palmer amaranth control to at least 92%, compared with ethalfluralin preplant
- Taxon
- cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe2 - Treatment
- The addition of fomesafen preplante2
- Outcome
- Palmer amaranth controle2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Value
- at least 92%e2
- Comparator
- Ethalfluralin applied preplante1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Ethalfluralin applied preplant did not injure cantaloupe or cotton, but Palmer amaranth was not controlled”
e2“The addition of fomesafen preplant improved Palmer amaranth control to at least 92% without injuring cotton, but cantaloupe necrosis and chlorosis of up to 20% was recorded”
Title
Weed Control, Crop Response, and Profitability When Intercropping Cantaloupe and Cotton
Peter M. Eure; A. Stanley Culpepper; Rand M. Merchant; et al. Weed Technology 2015. doi:10.1614/wt-d-14-00023.1
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Preplant ethalfluralin did not injure cantaloupe or cotton
- Intervention effect Fomesafen preplant did not injure cotton
- Intervention effect Cantaloupe necrosis and chlorosis of up to 20% were recorded with fomesafen preplant
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron-methyl was safely applied over cantaloupe
- Intervention effect Residual activity of halosulfuron-methyl reduced cotton growth by 12% at 4 wk after planting
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron-methyl did not improve Palmer amaranth control beyond ethalfluralin plus fomesafen preplant
- Intervention effect Intercropping systems controlling Palmer amaranth at least 92% gave cantaloupe yields similar to the weed-free monoculture
- Intervention effect Intercropping systems controlling Palmer amaranth at least 92% gave lint cotton yields 170 to 275 kg/ha lower than the weed-free monoculture
- Intervention effect Intercropping returns over variable costs exceeded those of cantaloupe monoculture and cotton monoculture while Palmer amaranth was controlled
- Recommendation Intercropping cantaloupe and cotton is an effective approach to improve grower profitability