Weed control in glyphosate-resistant sugar beets.

Author(s):  
Jeff M. Stachler ◽  
Alan G. Dexter ◽  
John L. Luecke
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2016 ◽  
pp. 517-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wegener ◽  
Natalie Balgheim ◽  
Maik Klie ◽  
Carsten Stibbe ◽  
Bernd Holtschulte

KWS SAAT SE and Bayer CropScience AG are jointly developing and commercializing an innovative system of weed control in sugar beet for the global market under the name of CONVISO SMART. The technology is based on the breeding of sugar beet cultivars that are tolerant to herbicides of the ALS-inhibitor-class with a broad-spectrum weed control. This will give farmers a new opportunity to make sugar beet cultivation easier, more flexible in its timing and more efficient. The use of CONVISO, as new herbicide in sugar beet, will make it possible to control major weeds with low dose rates of product and reduced number of applications in the future. The tolerance is based on a change in the enzyme acetholactate synthase, which is involved in the biosynthesis of essential amino acids. This variation can occur spontaneously during cell division. During the development, sugar beets with this spontaneously changed enzyme were specifically selected and used for further breeding of CONVISO SMART cultivars. As such, these varieties are not a product of genetic modification. Field studies with CONVISO SMART hybrids showed complete crop selectivity and a broad and reliable efficacy against a large range of major weeds. The bio-dossier for an EU-wide registration of CONVISO was submitted in April in 2015. The variety inscription process is in preparation in different countries. The system CONVISO SMART is scheduled to be available to farmers in 2018 at the earliest.


Weed Research ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. GIANNOPOLITIS ◽  
TH. G. STROUTHOPOULOS
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1963 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 564-570
Author(s):  
D. E. Bayer ◽  
W. H. Isom ◽  
H. P. Ford ◽  
C. L. Foy
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1965 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.F. Sullivan ◽  
R.R. Wood ◽  
R.L. Abram ◽  
S.G. Walter
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Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1517
Author(s):  
Jannis Machleb ◽  
Gerassimos G. Peteinatos ◽  
Markus Sökefeld ◽  
Roland Gerhards

The need for herbicide usage reduction and the increased interest in mechanical weed control has prompted greater attention to the development of agricultural robots for autonomous weeding in the past years. This also requires the development of suitable mechanical weeding tools. Therefore, we devised a new weeding tool for agricultural robots to perform intrarow mechanical weed control in sugar beets. A conventional finger weeder was modified and equipped with an electric motor. This allowed the rotational movement of the finger weeders independent of the forward travel speed of the tool carrier. The new tool was tested in combination with a bi-spectral camera in a two-year field trial. The camera was used to identify crop plants in the intrarow area. A controller regulated the speed of the motorized finger weeders, realizing two different setups. At the location of a sugar beet plant, the rotational speed was equal to the driving speed of the tractor. Between two sugar beet plants, the rotational speed was either increased by 40% or decreased by 40%. The intrarow weed control efficacy of this new system ranged from 87% to 91% in 2017 and from 91% to 94% in 2018. The sugar beet yields were not adversely affected by the mechanical treatments compared to the conventional herbicide application. The motorized finger weeders present an effective system for selective intrarow mechanical weeding. Certainly, mechanical weeding involves the risk of high weed infestations if the treatments are not applied properly and in a timely manner regardless of whether sensor technology is used or not. However, due to the increasing herbicide resistances and the continuing bans on herbicides, mechanical weeding strategies must be investigated further. The mechanical weeding system of the present study can contribute to the reduction of herbicide use in sugar beets and other wide row crops.


1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-349
Author(s):  
Robert N. Andersen ◽  
Donald E. Farus

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