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Glyphosate-Resistant Horseweed (Conyza canadensis) Emergence, Survival, and Fecundity in No-Till Soybean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Vince M. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1155
William G. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1155
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: wgj@purdue.edu

Abstract

Horseweed has generally been considered a winter annual weed species, but efforts to control horseweed as a winter annual weed in no-till soybean production with glyphosate have routinely failed in southeast Indiana. The objective of this study was to determine emergence timing, plant survival, and fecundity of a glyphosate-resistant (GR) horseweed biotype in the presence or absence of other winter annual weeds or soybean. A field study was conducted from October 2003 to October 2004 and repeated from October 2004 to October 2005 in fields following no-till soybean production. Horseweed emergence was not observed in the fall of 2003. Winter survival of plants that emerged in the fall of 2004 was 20% by late April 2005 and was inversely related to fall rosette size. Horseweed population densities were the highest in mid-May of both years, and over 90% of the plants observed at this time emerged in the spring. Plant survival from mid-May to mid-October was 3% and 21% in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Horseweed with flower heads above the soybean canopy by early August had greater late-season survival and produced more seed than plants growing below the canopy. Horseweed with flower heads above the soybean canopy produced an average of 27,200 and 58,320 seeds plant−1 in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Our research indicates that this southeast Indiana horseweed biotype behaves primarily as a summer annual weed and produces significant amounts of seed when uncontrolled in no-till soybean production.

Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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