Science news articles about 'herbicide application'

... of Environmental Quality. They demonstrated that potato tuber yield and quality can be affected by herbicide application rates below those causing a reduction in vegetative growth or injury. Potato ...

... injured. Based on our observations, we theorized that leaf tatters were caused by drift from herbicide applications before or at corn planting." The researchers found that visual injury to white oak ...

... management practices can almost eliminate resistant marestail and its viable seeds in the soil. "Another herbicide application is expensive, and it means more trips across the field," Johnson said. " ...

... and was repeated in June 2007. Mechenes said that the study in 2006 didn't receive a pre-emergent herbicide application and consequently had a lot of weed competition. The study in ...

... several varieties of sweet corn plants to the herbicide mesotrione or a combination of mesotrione and atrazine, another ... mature corn 45 days later. Herbicide applications made the corn an even-better ...