Claim · model-written summary
Irvin boom paraquat controlled over 98% of weeds in most trials.
- Taxon
- sorghum and chickpea
Cicer arietinum
Sorghumt0 - Treatment
- paraquat applied through the Irvin boome0
- Interactor
- weedse0weed
- Outcome
- weeds presente0
- Direction
- controllede0
- Value
- >98%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Results showed that paraquat applied through the Irvin boom effectively (>98%) controlled the weeds present in the majority of trials.”
t0“in sorghum and chickpea”
Title
V. A. Osten; G. Lotz Proceedings of the 16th Australian Weeds Conference, Cairns Convention Centre, North Queensland, Australia, 18-22 May, 2008 2008
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Irvin boom weed control was at least as good as shielded application and inter-row tillage.
- Observation The boom had minimal impact on standing wheat stubble.
- Intervention effect Crop damage was more noticeable with the Irvin boom.
- Intervention effect Irvin boom injury did not significantly reduce sorghum yields.
- Observation Chickpea damage was much greater.
- Observation Chickpea did not recover from damage.