Experiments were carried out in the laboratory and greenhouse to determine the growth inhibitory effects of Grassohopper's cyperus (Cyperus iria L.) on the seedlings of 5 Malaysian rice varieties namely MR211, MRQ74, MR220, MR84 and MR232. Three concentrations of the aqueous extract of the weed (12.5, 25.0 and 50.0 g/l) and weed debris (5, 10 and 20 g dry debris/1000 g soil) were used to test t...

Alligator weed Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb (Amaranthaceae) is being reported for the first time from Kashmir, India. Alternanthera philoxeroides was collected in 2008 during the vegetation survey of Wular Lake, a wetland of international importance under Ramsar convention. Alternanthera philoxeroides is a noxious invasive weed widespread throughout the world. We suggested that al...

Controlling weeds in organic farming systems requires the use of many techniques and strategies in order to achieve economically acceptable weed control and yields. Weeds can always be pulled or cut out, but the question is simply how much can a grower spend in terms of time and money to reduce weed pressure. The more a grower is able to reduce weed pressure (seed and perennial propagules) the ...

V. D. Damsteegt, E. N. Postnikova, and A. L. Stone, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Frederick, MD 21702; M. Kuhlmann, University of Maryland, College Park; C. Wilson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; A. Sechler and N. W. Schaad, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Frederick, MD 21702; R. H. Brlansky, CREC, IFAS, UFL, Lake Alfred, FL 33850; and W. L. Sc...

Adviser: George Gogos Flaming is a thermal weed control method that can kill weeds within or between crop rows using heat. Mechanical cultivation is another weed control method which undercuts weeds between crop rows to kill them. A combination flamer/cultivator implement was designed to take advantage of the good qualities of both flaming and cultivation to provide excellent organic weed contr...

Weeds compete with crops for belowground resources; however, there is little detailed information on relative dynamics of soil water during competitive interactions. This research was conducted to determine changes in soil-water storage (CSWS) in rain-fed no-tillage corn (Zea mays L.) production in the presence or absence of weed competition over two droughty growing seasons. Weeds at the exper...

Returns of an individual enterprise in the short term are usually measured through a gross margin budget, which is determined by subtracting factors such as the cost of weed control (both herbicide and non-herbicide) and other inputs (eg seed and fertiliser) from gross income (calculated as crop yield multiplied by grain price). Crop yield is directly influenced by weed density, which itself is...

Keywords: Support Vector Machines Machine vision Weed identification Image segmentation Decision making This paper outlines an automatic computer vision system for the identification of avena sterilis which is a special weed seed growing in cereal crops. The final goal is to reduce the quantity of herbicide to be sprayed as an important and necessary step for precision agriculture. So, only are...

A system to estimate the weed density between two rows of soybeans was developed. An environmentally adaptive segmentation algorithm (EASA) was used to segment the plants from the background of the image. The effect of two image data transformations on the segmentation performance of the EASA was investigated, and the RGB-IV1V2 transformation resulted in significantly higher quality segmentatio...