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Integrated Management of Cheat (Bromus secalinus L.) and Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum L.) in Oklahoma Grain Only Winter Wheat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Hannah C. Lindell*
Affiliation:
Former Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
Misha R. Manuchehri
Affiliation:
Former Associate Professor and State Extension Weed Science Specialist, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
Emi Kimura
Affiliation:
Associate Professor and Extension Agronomist, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service,
Todd A. Baughman
Affiliation:
Professor, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, Ardmore, OK 73401
Nicholas T. Basinger
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606
*
Author for correspondence: Hannah Lindell, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606. (Email: hcl00025@uga.edu)
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Abstract

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In Oklahoma, downy brome and cheat are difficult-to-control winter annual grasses. In the past, cheat infested most of the winter wheat hectares harvested in Oklahoma. Biotypes cross-resistant to acetolactate-synthase-inhibiting herbicides have left growers with minimal management options in conventional and herbicide-tolerant systems. Field trials at Lahoma, Oklahoma in 2019-20 and 2020-21 evaluated integrated management of cheat and downy brome using three strategies: planting date (optimal, mid-, and late), cultivar selection (high- and low-competitiveness), and herbicide choice (no herbicide, sulfosulfuron at 35.2 g ai ha-1 and pyroxsulam at 18.4 g ai ha-1). Visual control, weed species (spp.) present, wheat biomass at heading, and grain yield data were collected. In 2019-20, eight to nine weeks after treatment, visual control increased 15% with mid-planting compared to optimal planting date and 14% with late planting compared to mid-planting. In 2020-21, similar control (∼99%) was recorded for mid- and late plantings with 23% greater control than the optimal timing. Due to a lack of weed coverage, weed biomass in 2019-20 had no response to planting date, cultivar, or herbicide treatment. Downy brome biomass during 2020-21 was ∼90% lower with mid to late planting than optimal. In the same year, downy brome and cheat biomass were low (≤ 0.4 and 0.2 g m-2) and 98% less after an herbicide application than nontreated. Wheat grain yield at the optimal planting date was greatest compared to mid- and late planting date for 2019-20. A delay in planting from the optimal date to mid- or late timings decreased wheat yield 14 and 21%, respectively. In 2020-21, late planting reduced wheat yield 57% compared to optimal planting. Delaying planting date and the use of a common herbicide can suppress cheat and downy brome., but a decline in wheat yield may occur.

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