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Growth of Ironweed as Affected by Mowing and Storage Root Removal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

M. K. McCarty  and
D. L. Linscott
M. K. McCarty
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
D. L. Linscott
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, formerly at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; now at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York
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Abstract

Rhizome sections of ironweed from which the fleshy roots had been pruned made less than half as much growth in the greenhouse as sections which had three inches of fleshy roots attached. Rhizome sections at least two inches long with portions of the fleshy roots intact should be used for asexual reproduction of ironweed. Ironweed plants in the field after 8 and 9 years of mowing treatments at 2 dates were approximately ⅔ as tall as untreated plants. No significant reduction in stand was obtained by 9 successive years of mowing.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1963 , pp. 223 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Weed Science Society of America 

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