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Master of Science / Department of Agronomy / J.A. Dille / The availability of ALS-inhibitor herbicide-resistant grain sorghum hybrids will provide an opportunity to control grass weeds post-emergence with the ALS-inhibiting herbicide nicosulfuron (Zest[superscript]TM). More information on impact of grass weeds on sorghum yield are needed to optimize the application of nicosulfuron. The research objectives were to evaluate the impact of time of grass weed removal on grain sorghum yield when grown in different crop row spacing and seeding rates and to determine the critical duration of grass weed competition. Field studies were conducted in 2014 and 2015 at the KSU Agricultural Research Center at Hays, KS and the KSU Department of Agronomy Research Farm near Manhattan, KS. Four main treatments were grain sorghum row spacing of 25 and 76 cm at Hays or 20 and 76 cm at Manhattan, and two seeding rates of 125,000 and 150,000 seed ha⁻¹. Within each main plot, seven treatments were established including: weed-free all season using pre-emergence herbicides, weed-free all season by hand, weedy for 2, 3, 4, and 5 weeks after crop emergence in 2014 or weedy for 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks after crop emergence in 2015, and weedy all season. The main grass weeds were giant, green, and yellow foxtail species, large crabgrass, and barnyardgrass. Grass weed biomass increased through the season at both locations in 2014 and in Manhattan in 2015. Hays 2014 grain sorghum aboveground stem and leaf biomass across row spacing and seeding rates decreased as weed removal time was delayed through the growing season. Grain sorghum yield decreased with increasing duration of grass weed competition in both years in Manhattan and in 2014 at Hays. Yield loss reached 5% at 2.3 to 25 weeks after sorghum emergence in narrow row spacing and 3.3 to 6.3 weeks after sorghum emergence in wide row spacing, depending on location, demonstrating that removing grass weed competition during these time frames will prevent more than 5% loss in grain sorghum yields.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1959 S57

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The response of grass, forb, and shrub seeds to the subalpine environment during the fall and under winter snow and under laboratory conditions at 20/28 C was observed for 3 consecutive years at an elevation of about 3000m on the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah. Seeds in nylon sleeves were planted under 2 cm of soil before snowfall. Under snow plantings were made directly on the soil surface and under 2 cm of soil. The seeds planted before snowfall were removed each year on four occasions: when under snow plantings were made, after snow depth exceeded 130 cm (deep snow), just before spring snowmelt, and 10 or more days following snowmelt when soils had warmed. Seeds planted under snow or under snow and soil were removed on two occasions: after snow depth exceeded 130 cm and just before the snow melted in the spring. Environmental conditions which produced seed germination varied with species, origin of species, age of seed, and temperature. Fifty-four of the 60 species planted in September under 2 cm of soil before snowfall had some seed germinated when examined just before the snow melted in the spring. Fifty of the same species planted after winter snow covered the ground in November also had some seed germination just before the snow melted in the spring. Seed germination at the near 0 C temperatures on the soil surface under snow was usually similar to the comparable seed lots also placed under 2 cm of soil. Germinability of the grasses, forbs, and shrubs studied was placed in three broad classifications: (1) Little or no seed dormancy with germination at low and warm temperatures. Seeds germinated soon after harvest at temperatures near 0 C and also in the laboratory at 20/28 C. Examples are Agropyron desertorum, A. intermedium, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus, and Lupinus alpestris. (2) Little or no seed dormancy with germination only at warm temperatures. Seeds did not germinate at the low temperatures present in the subalpine zone during the fall and winter but germinated readily in the laboratory at 20/28 C. Examples are Aquilegia caerulea , Potentilla gracilis var. pulcherrima, Rudbeckia occidentalis, and Valeriana edulis. (3) Dormancy at seed harvest. Germination was usually increased by near 0 C temperatures, by aging, and by other environmental conditions present under deep snow. Examples are Agropyron trachycaulum, Delphinium barbeyi, Madia glomerata, and Ribes cereum var. inebrians.