Claim · model-written summary
Cutting reduced B. sterilis panicle density by 47%.
- Taxon
- Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Interactor
- B. sterilis
Bromus sterilise0weed - Outcome
- B. sterilise0
- Value
- 47%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“B. sterilis by 47%”
t0“Impact of Panicle Cutting and Chaff Milling on the Panicle and Seed Density of Three Grass Weeds and Grain Yield of Winter Wheat”
Title
Roland Gerhards; Klaus Gehring; Theresa Ann Piskáčková; et al. Weed Research 2026. doi:10.1111/wre.70045
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Cutting reduced A. myosuroides panicle density by 22%.
- Intervention effect Cutting reduced L. multiflorum panicle density by 63%.
- Observation Most B. sterilis panicles were below the wheat canopy at the second cutting.
- Intervention effect Milling destroyed 39% of A. myosuroides seeds in chaff.
- Intervention effect Milling destroyed 78% of L. multiflorum seeds in chaff.
- Intervention effect Milling destroyed 90% of B. sterilis seeds in chaff.
- Observation Grass weeds retained 40%–60% of seeds on panicles until harvest.
- Intervention effect Combined cutting and milling reduced A. myosuroides seed density by 10%.
- Intervention effect Combined cutting and milling reduced B. sterilis seed density by 63%.
- Intervention effect Combined cutting and milling reduced L. multiflorum seed density by 85%.
- Intervention effect The treatments did not decrease weed competition or wheat yield losses in the treatment year.
- Recommendation Authors recommend combining these measures with other weed control measures.