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Fate of weed seeds after impact mill processing in midwestern and mid-Atlantic United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2019

Lovreet S. Shergill Open the ORCID record for Lovreet S. Shergill [Opens in a new window] ,
Kreshnik Bejleri ,
Adam Davis  and
Steven B. Mirsky Open the ORCID record for Steven B. Mirsky [Opens in a new window]
Lovreet S. Shergill*
Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA Postdoctoral Researcher, Carvel Research and Education Center, Georgetown, DE, USA
Kreshnik Bejleri
Affiliation:
Faculty Assistant, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA
Adam Davis
Affiliation:
Professor and Head, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois–Champaign, IL, USA
Steven B. Mirsky
Affiliation:
Research Ecologist, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA
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Author for correspondence: Lovreet S. Shergill, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD20705, USA. Email: lovreet@udel.edu
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Abstract

Harvest weed seed control (HWSC) technology, such as impact mills that destroy weed seeds in seed-bearing chaff material during grain crop harvest, has been highly effective in Australian cropping systems. However, the impact mill has never been tested in soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] and weeds common to soybean production systems in the midwestern and mid-Atlantic United States. We conducted stationary testing of Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) impact mill and winter burial studies during 2015 to 2016 and 2017 to 2018 to determine (1) the efficacy of the impact mill to target weed seeds of seven common weeds in midwestern and five in the mid-Atlantic United States, and (2) the fate of impact mill–processed weed seeds after winter burial. The impact mill was highly effective in destroying seeds of all the species tested, with 93.5% to 99.8% weed seed destruction in 2015 and 85.6% to 100% in 2017. The weak relationships (positive or negative) between seed size and seed destruction by impact mill and the high percentage of weed seed destruction by impact mill across all seed sizes indicate that the biological or practical effect of seed size is limited. The impact mill–processed weed seeds that retained at least 50% of their original size, labeled as potentially viable seed (PVS), were buried for 90 d overwinter to determine the fate of weed seeds after winter burial. At 90 d after burial, the impact mill–processed PVS were significantly less viable than unprocessed control seeds, indicating that impact mill processing physically damaged the PVS and promoted seed mortality overwinter. A very small fraction (<0.4%) of the total weed seed processed by the impact mill remained viable after winter burial. The results presented here demonstrate that the impact mill is highly effective in increasing seed mortality and could potentially be used as an HWSC tactic for weed management in this region.

Keywords

Harrington seed destructor (HSD)harvest weed seed control (HWSC)herbicide resistanceseed viabilityweed seed decayweed seed killweed seed mortality
Type
Research Article
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Weed Science , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 92 - 97
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© Weed Science Society of America, 2019

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Footnotes

Associate Editor: Christopher Preston, University of Adelaide

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