Cinmethylin, a pre-emergent applied active ingredient, inhibits the fatty acid thioesterase and offers new option in chemical control of Alopecurus myosuroides, one most problematic weeds arable farming Europe. It was assumed that with delayed sowing winter wheat barley due to more humid cooler conditions, efficacy cinmethylin against A. myosuroides increases. Four field trials were conducted S...

Black-grass is a common grass weed, widely spread in Northern Europe and also in Belgium. For ages, it has been an increasing problem in industrial crops, especially winter cereals. The first case of resistance in Belgium was reported in 1996 by Robert Bulcke (Eelen et al., 1996). Yet the resistance mechanism was not specified. Since then, no more information was published about the evolution B...

Seed predation can reduce the abundance and spread of unwanted vegetation in agricultural other semi-natural ecosystems. However, knowledge how variations seed rates affect plant species population dynamics is needed for decision making knowledge-based ecosystem management. We developed a stage-classified stochastic matrix model Alopecurus myosuroides Huds. (blackgrass), an annual thriving as w...

This is the first investigation of the diversity and distribution of 16S rRNA and phenol monooxygenase (PHE) genes in endophytic and rhizosphere bacteria of plants at sites contaminated with different levels of PAHs. Ten PAHs at concentrations from 34.22 to 55.29 and 45.79 to 97.81 mg·kg(-1) were measured in rhizosphere soils of Alopecurus aequalis Sobol and Oxalis corniculata L., respectively....