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Technique for Separating Weed Seed from Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

P. K. Fay  and
W. A. Olson
P. K. Fay
Affiliation:
Agron. Dep., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND 58102
W. A. Olson
Affiliation:
Agron. Dep., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND 58102
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Abstract

A simple technique is described for rapid determination of weed seed, rhizome, corm, or bulb populations in soil. Soil samples were placed in nylon mesh bags. The soil was washed from the bags by machine leaving only a small residue including the desired propagules. These were hand separated and the soil population of a given plant species calculated. The total manipulation time per sample was approximately 10 min.

Keywords

Rhizometuberscormsbulbspropagules

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Type
Research Article
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Weed Science , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , November 1978 , pp. 530 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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