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Wild Oat (Avena fatua) Competition in Soybean (Glycine max)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Duane P. Rathmann
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND 58105
Stephen D. Miller
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND 58105

Abstract

The effects of various densities and durations of wild oat (Avena fatua L.) competition in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr. ‘Evans’] were determined in the field during a 2-yr period. Season-long competition by densities of 1, 3,9, and 30 wild oat plants/m of row reduced soybean seed yield an average of 6, 17, 32, and 51%, respectively. An infestation of 30 wild oat plants/m of row did not reduce soybean yield if the period of competition was limited to 4 weeks after crop emergence; however, yields were reduced 29, 50, 63, 58, and 63% when wild oat competed for 5, 6, 7, and 8 weeks, or season long, respectively. Wild oat competition reduced soybean pods per plant and seeds per plant more than seeds per pod or seed weight.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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