Claim · model-written summary
The authors present earlier harvest and stalk destruction after ethephon as practices that may reduce overwintering boll weevils.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Interactor
- boll weevil
Anthonomus grandise0pest - Outcome
- earlier harvest, stalk destruction, and cotton plow downe0
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Verbatim
e0“demonstrating the potential for earlier harvest, stalk destruction, and cotton plow down, which are desirable cultural practices that help reduce overwintering boll weevil populations.”
t0“Cotton”
Title
T. J. Henneberry; T. Meng; W. D. Hutchison; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 1988. doi:10.1093/jee/81.2.628
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect In 1985, ethephon reduced boll weevils in infested bolls and squares by more than 95% versus untreated checks.
- Intervention effect In 1986, weevil populations rose in all plots, but untreated checks had 9.5 times more weevils than ethephon plots after 30 to 44 days.
- Intervention effect In 1985, 1.12 kg (AI)/ha ethephon on either September date did not affect lint yield.
- Intervention effect In 1985, 2.24 kg (AI)/ha ethephon on 6 September significantly reduced yield.
- Intervention effect In 1986, 1.68 kg (AI)/ha ethephon had no effect on cotton yield or fiber quality.
- Intervention effect Fiber-length uniformity ratio was significantly higher in ethephon-treated plots in 1986.
- Intervention effect Ethephon accelerated mature boll opening in both years.