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| Author(s): |
Luciano Shozo Shiratsuchi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. , gráficos, ilustrações, tabelas. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2001-12-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Pedro Jacob Christoffoleti;
Jose Paulo Molin;
Ricardo Victoria Filho
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| Advisor: | Pedro Jacob Christoffoleti |
| Field of knowledge: | Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca Central da Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz; t632.58; S558m 77952 |
| Abstract | |
Traditionally the weed management has been done considering the overall weed infestation in the whole field and then herbicides are sprayed according to a single weed control recommendation for the field. But weeds are not uniformly distributed and normally have clumped populations showing weed patches presenting high spatial variability. This nature of the weed populations can be mapped, and so it can help the decisions associated with weed management on agricultural systems. However, localization and mapping of the weed clusters are very difficult tasks in large areas, and require adequate methodology. Therefore, determination method of this weed infestation variability in space must be scientifically studied. With the objective of studying the weed spatial variability and temporal behavior of weed seedlings infestations and their respective seed banks, four experiments were conducted to evaluate the spatial temporal behavior of the weeds and the potential of weed mapping technology could bring to the rational weed management. The aim of the first experiment was to evaluate the spatial temporal behavior of the weed seedlings and their respective seed banks using the mapping technology. A grid sampling was used to understand the seedling and seed bank behavior in the space and time. Correlations using "Spearman rank" test were observed, mainly in Ageratum conyzoides L. and Commelina benghalensis L. The spatial dependence was noted between 7 and 15 m for the weed seedlings and seed banks. The weed maps showed that the weeds have a high spatial variability making patches with some temporal stability. In the second experiment two weed surveys were done with the objective of mapping Panicum maximum Jacq. during and after corn harvest. The grid sampling method after harvest corn was used to evaluate the harvest mapping method. It was underestimated about 6% of the weed infestation using the harvest mapping method when it was compared with the grid sampling method after corn harvest. In this experiment the harvest mapping method had just 45% of efficiency in recording weed infestation areas. The third experiment was done in order to analyzed the post emergence herbicide efficacy in soybeans based on weed maps constructed with grid sampling mapping. The weed seedling was counted in a 6 by 6 m grid and, based on weed infestation of each grid, it was sprayed two post emergence herbicide rates according to the weed infestation. It was saved 18 to 44% of herbicides compared to broadcast application with the same herbicide efficacy. In the fourth experiment a pre emergence herbicide application was carried out in soybeans crop based on weed seed bank map and, it was observed that the site-specific application had similar efficacy saving 22% of herbicides. So, the weed mapping technology is an important tool to bear on decisions associated with crop production, and it is a priority for the implementation of this technology multiple sources of scientific knowledge in weed biology and management regarding to the weed spatial variability. (AU) | |