Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid

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Autor(a) principal: Silva,P.S.L.
Data de Publicação: 2009
Outros Autores: Oliveira,O.F., Silva,P.I.B., Silva,K.M.B., Braga,J.D.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Planta daninha (Online)
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Resumo: Herbicides have simplified weed control, but the use of herbicides, besides being costly, resulted in the selection of herbicide-resistant weed biotypes and has become an environmental contamination factor. Herbicide use reduction is one of the goals of modern agriculture, with several alternatives being investigated, including intercropping. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of cowpea and corn cultivar intercropping on weed control and corn green-ear (immature ears with 80% humidity grains) and grain yield. A completely randomized block design with split-plots and four replications was used. AG 1051, AG 2060 and PL 6880 corn cultivars (assigned to plots) were submitted to the four treatments: no weeding, two hoe-weeding (22 and 41 days after planting), and intercropping with cowpea (BR 14 and IPA 206 cultivars, with indeterminate growth). The cowpea was planted (with corn planting) between the corn rows, in pits 1.0 m apart, with two plants per pit. The corn cultivars did not differ from each other as to weed density (WD), fresh above-ground weed biomass (WB), green-ear yield and grain yields. Higher WD and WB mean values were found in no weeding subplots; lower mean values in two hoe-weeding subplots; and intermediate mean values in intercropped subplots, indicating that cowpea plants had, to a certain extent, control over weeds. The no-weeded plots and the intercropped plots had lower green-ear and grain yields. Although the cowpea cultivars had a certain control over weeds (mean reductions of 22.5 and 18.3%, in terms of green matter density and weight of the above-ground part of weeds, respectively), they also competed against the corn plants, leading to yield reduction (mean reductions of 17.0 and 32% in green ear and grain yield, respectively). The cowpea cultivars did not produce grain, certainly due to the strong competition exerted by the corn and weeds on cowpea plants.
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spelling Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieidZea maysVigna unguiculatacultivarsgreen-ear yieldgrain yieldHerbicides have simplified weed control, but the use of herbicides, besides being costly, resulted in the selection of herbicide-resistant weed biotypes and has become an environmental contamination factor. Herbicide use reduction is one of the goals of modern agriculture, with several alternatives being investigated, including intercropping. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of cowpea and corn cultivar intercropping on weed control and corn green-ear (immature ears with 80% humidity grains) and grain yield. A completely randomized block design with split-plots and four replications was used. AG 1051, AG 2060 and PL 6880 corn cultivars (assigned to plots) were submitted to the four treatments: no weeding, two hoe-weeding (22 and 41 days after planting), and intercropping with cowpea (BR 14 and IPA 206 cultivars, with indeterminate growth). The cowpea was planted (with corn planting) between the corn rows, in pits 1.0 m apart, with two plants per pit. The corn cultivars did not differ from each other as to weed density (WD), fresh above-ground weed biomass (WB), green-ear yield and grain yields. Higher WD and WB mean values were found in no weeding subplots; lower mean values in two hoe-weeding subplots; and intermediate mean values in intercropped subplots, indicating that cowpea plants had, to a certain extent, control over weeds. The no-weeded plots and the intercropped plots had lower green-ear and grain yields. Although the cowpea cultivars had a certain control over weeds (mean reductions of 22.5 and 18.3%, in terms of green matter density and weight of the above-ground part of weeds, respectively), they also competed against the corn plants, leading to yield reduction (mean reductions of 17.0 and 32% in green ear and grain yield, respectively). The cowpea cultivars did not produce grain, certainly due to the strong competition exerted by the corn and weeds on cowpea plants.Sociedade Brasileira da Ciência das Plantas Daninhas 2009-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-83582009000300009Planta Daninha v.27 n.3 2009reponame:Planta daninha (Online)instname:Sociedade Brasileira da Ciência das Plantas Daninhas (SBCPD)instacron:SBCPD10.1590/S0100-83582009000300009info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSilva,P.S.L.Oliveira,O.F.Silva,P.I.B.Silva,K.M.B.Braga,J.D.eng2009-10-16T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0100-83582009000300009Revistahttp://revistas.cpd.ufv.br/pdaninhaweb/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||rpdaninha@gmail.com1806-96810100-8358opendoar:2009-10-16T00:00Planta daninha (Online) - Sociedade Brasileira da Ciência das Plantas Daninhas (SBCPD)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
title Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
spellingShingle Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
Silva,P.S.L.
Zea mays
Vigna unguiculata
cultivars
green-ear yield
grain yield
title_short Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
title_full Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
title_fullStr Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
title_full_unstemmed Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
title_sort Effect of cowpea intercropping on weed control and corn yieid
author Silva,P.S.L.
author_facet Silva,P.S.L.
Oliveira,O.F.
Silva,P.I.B.
Silva,K.M.B.
Braga,J.D.
author_role author
author2 Oliveira,O.F.
Silva,P.I.B.
Silva,K.M.B.
Braga,J.D.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silva,P.S.L.
Oliveira,O.F.
Silva,P.I.B.
Silva,K.M.B.
Braga,J.D.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Zea mays
Vigna unguiculata
cultivars
green-ear yield
grain yield
topic Zea mays
Vigna unguiculata
cultivars
green-ear yield
grain yield
description Herbicides have simplified weed control, but the use of herbicides, besides being costly, resulted in the selection of herbicide-resistant weed biotypes and has become an environmental contamination factor. Herbicide use reduction is one of the goals of modern agriculture, with several alternatives being investigated, including intercropping. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of cowpea and corn cultivar intercropping on weed control and corn green-ear (immature ears with 80% humidity grains) and grain yield. A completely randomized block design with split-plots and four replications was used. AG 1051, AG 2060 and PL 6880 corn cultivars (assigned to plots) were submitted to the four treatments: no weeding, two hoe-weeding (22 and 41 days after planting), and intercropping with cowpea (BR 14 and IPA 206 cultivars, with indeterminate growth). The cowpea was planted (with corn planting) between the corn rows, in pits 1.0 m apart, with two plants per pit. The corn cultivars did not differ from each other as to weed density (WD), fresh above-ground weed biomass (WB), green-ear yield and grain yields. Higher WD and WB mean values were found in no weeding subplots; lower mean values in two hoe-weeding subplots; and intermediate mean values in intercropped subplots, indicating that cowpea plants had, to a certain extent, control over weeds. The no-weeded plots and the intercropped plots had lower green-ear and grain yields. Although the cowpea cultivars had a certain control over weeds (mean reductions of 22.5 and 18.3%, in terms of green matter density and weight of the above-ground part of weeds, respectively), they also competed against the corn plants, leading to yield reduction (mean reductions of 17.0 and 32% in green ear and grain yield, respectively). The cowpea cultivars did not produce grain, certainly due to the strong competition exerted by the corn and weeds on cowpea plants.
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