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Investigations of Catch and Trap Crops to Eradicate Witchweed (Striga asiatica)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

E. L. Robinson  and
Clyde C. Dowler
E. L. Robinson
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Clyde C. Dowler
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
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Abstract

The effectiveness of catch or trap crops in ridding soil of witchweed was studied by growing the crops 1 through 5 years on heavily infested witchweed land.

Catch or trap crops were about equal in value for witchweed eradication. Soybeans, field peas, and sorghum were grown 3 years before acceptable corn yields were obtained. Two years of millet and 4 of corn were required to obtain acceptable corn yields.

Complete eradication of witchweed was not achieved by any crop during the 5-year period.

Type
Brief Papers
Information
Weeds , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , July 1966 , pp. 275 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 Weed Science Society of America 

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