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Seed Longevity of 41 Weed Species Buried 17 Years in Eastern and Western Nebraska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Orvin C. Burnside ,
Robert G. Wilson ,
Sanford Weisberg  and
Kenneth G. Hubbard
Orvin C. Burnside
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Plant Genetics, Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
Robert G. Wilson
Affiliation:
Panhandle Stn., Univ. Nebraska, Scottsbluff, NE 69361
Sanford Weisberg
Affiliation:
Dep. Applied Statistics, Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
Kenneth G. Hubbard
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. Meteorology, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583
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Abstract

Seed of 41 economically important weed species of the Great Plains region of the United States were buried 20 cm deep in soil in eastern and western Nebraska in 1976. The 41 species consisted of 11 annual grass, 14 annual broadleaf, 4 biennial broadleaf, and 12 perennial broadleaf species. Weed seeds were exhumed annually for germination tests the first 9 yr, then after 12 and 17 yr. Germination percentages at the two burial locations averaged over 0, 1 to 4, 5 to 8, and 9 to 17 yr of burial were 57, 28, 9, and 4% for annual grass; 47, 26, 16, and 11 % for annual broadleaf; 52, 49, 44, and 30 % for biennial broadleaf; 36, 18, 13, and 8% for perennial broadleaf; and 47, 26, 16, and 10% for all 41 weed species, respectively. Biennial broadleaf weeds showed the greatest seed germination over years. Annual grass weeds showed less seed germinability over 17 yr of burial than annual broadleaf weeds and perennial broadleaf weed species were intermediate. Weed seed germinability in soil was greater in the reduced rainfall and more moderate soil temperatures of western Nebraska than in the greater rainfall and more fluctuating soil temperatures of eastern Nebraska. The greatest seed survival among the 41 weed species was shown by common mullein, which had 95% germination after 17 yr of burial in western Nebraska. Decay rates of individual weed species in soil will be of most value to weed scientists, agriculturalists, and modelers evaluating past or designing future weed management systems.

Keywords

Common mullein, Verbascum thapsus L. ♯ VESTHHard seedseed dormancyseed germinationseed persistenceseed viabilitysoil seed bankweed seed survivalVESTH
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 74 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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