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024 8 _ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12505
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100 1 _aLowry, C.J.
_921625
245 1 0 _aWeed germinable seedbanks of rice–wheat systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains :
_bdo tillage and edaphic factors explain community variation?
260 _aUnited Kingdom :
_bWiley,
_c2021.
500 _aPeer review
500 _aOpen Access
520 _aZero tillage (ZT) is widely promoted throughout India's Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) because of its potential to increase wheat productivity and resilience to abiotic stresses. Weeds remain a major barrier to ZT adoption, yet it remains unclear how ZT will influence weed communities in the Eastern-IGP. The primary objective of this study was to characterise the composition of the germinable weed seedbank sampled just prior to the wheat phase of rice–wheat farms in Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh, and examine whether adoption of ZT wheat has shifted weed community composition compared to conventional tillage (CT). Additionally, we examined whether edaphic properties and topography (upland vs. lowland) explain variation in germinable weed seedbank communities. In December 2014, we evaluated the germinable seedbank from 72 fields differing in their historic (>=3 year) tillage practices (ZT vs. CT) in three regions: Samastipur–Vaishali–Muzaffarpur (SVM), Ara–Buxar and Maharajgunj–Kushinagar. Weed community composition and species richness varied by region and topography. ZT adoption was associated with lower relative density of Chenopodium album in the germinable seedbank and lower emergence of Phalaris minor seedlings within farmers’ fields. In upland topographies of the SVM region, ZT adoption was also associated with greater relative abundance of Solanum nigrum in the weed seedbank. However, differences between tillage systems in individual species were not large enough to result in detection of differences at the whole-community level. Variation in edaphic properties, most notably soil texture and pH, explained 51% of the variation in the weed seedbank community. Our work suggests several frequent but poorly understood species (e.g. Mazus pumilus and Grangea maderaspatana) in Eastern IGP for which future research should quantify their effects on crop yields. Finally, future work surveying weed species abundance at harvest could further determine the dominant problematic species in these regions.
546 _aText in English
591 _aKumar, V. : No CIMMYT Affiliation
650 7 _aConservation tillage
_2AGROVOC
_91056
650 7 _aRice
_2AGROVOC
_91243
650 7 _aWeeds
_2AGROVOC
_91309
650 7 _aWheat
_2AGROVOC
_91310
650 7 _aZero tillage
_2AGROVOC
_91753
700 1 _aBrainard, D.C.
_923350
700 1 _aKumar, V.
_8I1705444
_9781
_gSustainable Intensification Program
700 1 _aSmith, R.G.
_923351
700 1 _aSingh, M.
_918177
700 1 _aKumar, P.
_918178
700 1 _aKumar, A.
_99302
700 1 _aKumar, V.
_911131
700 0 _aRajiv K. Joon
_93816
700 1 _aJat, R.K.
_8INT3419
_9953
_gBorlaug Institute for South Asia
700 1 _aPoonia, S.P.
_96359
_gSustainable Intensification Program
700 1 _aMalik, R.
_8R1705430
_9972
_gSustainable Intensification Program
700 1 _aMcDonald, A.
_8INT3034
_9883
_gSustainable Intensification Program
773 0 _tWeed Research
_dUnited Kingdom : Wiley, 2021.
_x1365-3180
_gv. 61, no. 6, p. 475-485
_wG444776
856 4 _yOpen Access through DSpace
_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/21671
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