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Diversity of weed communities under different water regimes in bertam irrigated direct seeded rice field.


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Juraimi, Abdul Shukor and Ahmad Hamdani, Muhammad Saiful and Uddin, Md. Kamal and Anuar, A.R. and Azmi, M. (2011) Diversity of weed communities under different water regimes in bertam irrigated direct seeded rice field. Australian Journal of Crop Science, 5 (5). pp. 595-604. ISSN 1835-2693; ESSN: 1835-2707

Abstract

Experiments were initiated at MARDI Bertam Rice Research Station in Penang in the dry season of 2004 and main season 2004/2005 to study the effect of different water regimes on diversity of weed species. Plots receiving continuous flooded treatment (T1) and flooding up to panicle initiation (T2) significantly suppressed weed population to approximately 18 – 58% and reduced weed biomass to 14 – 57% as compared to the highest values in continuous field capacity treatment (T5) at all sampling dates (30, 60 and 90 DAS) in both planting seasons. Across water regime treatments the weed composition comprised of 11 weed species in the dry season and 10 weed species in the main season. Broadleaved weeds, especially Monochoria vaginalis and Limnocharis flava were the most dominant weeds in most water regime treatments. The SDR values of broadleaved weeds in the dry season were 48.7, 46.4, 44.2, 40.7 and 35.8% for T2, T1, T3 (flooding for the first month), T5 and T4 (continuous saturation), respectively. In the main season, the SDR values for the broadleaved weeds increased to 79.5, 68.2, 62.4, 62.2, and 50.57% for T2, T1, T3, T4 and T5, respectively. Fimbristylis miliacea and Cyperus iria were dominant in the dry season with SDR values of more than 34% in all water regime treatments, but decreased to less than 23% in the main season. For grasses, comprising of mostly Echinochloa crus-galli, Echinochloa colona and Leptochloa chinensis, SDR values of more than 20% were recorded in T4 and T5 in the dry season, while in the main season SDR values of between 21 – 34% were observed in treatments T1, T3and T5.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Publisher: Southern Cross Publishing
Keywords: Water regimes; Weed diversity; Weed numbers; Weed biomass; Summed dominance ratio.
Depositing User: Nur Farahin Ramli
Date Deposited: 28 Jan 2014 08:00
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2015 06:26
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23750
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