Claim · model-written summary
Soil glyphosate at 17.9 kg/ha reduced height only in Vernal.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Material
- Vernale0
- Treatment
- applied to the soil at 17.9 kg/hae0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“reduced plant height only of Vernal when applied to the soil at 17.9 kg/ha”
t0“Alfalfa(Medicago sativa)”
Title
Use of Glyphosate in Sod Seeding Alfalfa(Medicago sativa)Establishment
Loren Moshier; Donald Penner Weed Science 1978. doi:10.1017/s0043174500049584
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Glyphosate did not significantly reduce germination of Saranac or Vernal alfalfa in petri dishes.
- Intervention effect EPTC did not significantly reduce germination of Saranac or Vernal alfalfa in petri dishes.
- Intervention effect Glyphosate at 10 −5 M reduced shoot length in both cultivars.
- Observation Vernal alfalfa appeared more susceptible to glyphosate than Saranac.
- Intervention effect Soil glyphosate did not affect emergence of either alfalfa cultivar.
- Intervention effect Glyphosate on Kentucky bluegrass sod reduced dry weight of both alfalfa cultivars.
- Observation Vernal was more adversely affected than Saranac in sod seeding.
- Intervention effect A three-day planting delay reduced growth inhibition after spraying glyphosate.
- Observation Paraquat produced similar results in the management systems.
- Intervention effect Bluegrass clippings treated with paraquat within three days of seedling contact reduced alfalfa dry weight.
- Intervention effect Glyphosate-treated bluegrass clippings did not significantly reduce alfalfa dry weight.