Cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) is an important cover crop species in the United States. It has potential to minimize soil erosion, reduce nutrient leaching, decrease fertilizer inputs, improve water after termination, and enhance organic matter. also efficient tool for weed suppression (up 100% under ideal conditions), which achieved through several mechanisms. Reported biomass production estim...

Enhancing vineyards sustainability and reducing herbicides usage is a crucial theme, thus alternative weed management methods are starting to be studied. Cover crops have been shown provide for several environmental services such as performing an efficient control promoting biodiversity, improving the of overall system. However, use cover usually confined interrow area in order avoid competitio...

Good management models for postemergence weed control require good estimates of which weed density produces an economic threshold yield. Because intraweed competition increases if weeds are aggregated, weed spatial pattern may be an important factor for inclusion in management models. Mathematical models of weed–crop competition have demonstrated that this may be the case, but the small number ...

This study was initiated owing to concern that removal of the invasive ground cover weed Tradescantia fluminensis may adversely effect the rare giant predatory land snail Powelliphanta traversi. From field trials using hand removal and herbicide spraying, it was considered that graduated control of Tradescantia with concomitant replacement of native ground cover could be of benefit to P. traver...