Plant Protect. Sci., 2017, 53(2):118-125 | DOI: 10.17221/57/2016-PPS

Sugar beet yield loss predicted by relative weed cover, weed biomass and weed densityOriginal Paper

Roland Gerhards*, Kostyantyn Bezhin, Hans-Joachim Santel
Department of Weed Science, Institute of Phytomedicine, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Sugar beet yield loss was predicted from early observations of weed density, relative weed cover, and weed biomass using non-linear regression models. Six field experiments were conducted in Germany and in the Russian Federation in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Average weed densities varied from 20 to 131 with typical weed species compositions for sugar beet fields at both locations. Sugar beet yielded higher in Germany and relative yield losses were lower than in Russia. Data of weed density, relative weed cover, weed biomass and relative yield loss fitted well to the non-linear regression models. Competitive weed species such as Chenopodium album and Amaranthus retroflexus caused more than 80% yield loss. Relative weed cover regression models provided more accurate predictions of sugar beet yield losses than weed biomass and weed density.

Keywords: crop-weed interaction; weed competition; yield loss function

Published: June 30, 2017  Show citation

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Gerhards R, Bezhin K, Santel H. Sugar beet yield loss predicted by relative weed cover, weed biomass and weed density. Plant Protect. Sci. 2017;53(2):118-125. doi: 10.17221/57/2016-PPS.
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