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Genotypic Variation in Ability to Recover from Weed Competition at Early Vegetative Stage in Upland Rice

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PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 116-120

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CROP SCIENCE SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1626/pps.13.116

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Improved cultivar; Laos; Recover from weed competition; Slash-and-burn; Traditional cultivar; Upland rice

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  1. Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan [S2-3b]

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In northern Laos, weeds are a major constraint to upland rice production in slash-and-burn systems. Two experiments were conducted to assess genotypic variation in ability to recover from weed competition at the early vegetative stage. Three traditional and two improved (IR 55423-01 and B6144F-MR-6-0-0) cultivars were grown with or without maize as an artificial weed. Maize was seeded at the same time as rice and removed at 37 d after rice sowing. The two improved cultivars out yielded the traditional cultivars without weed competition. Larger yield loss due to the competition was associated with longer delay in days to flowering and smaller plant height at 37 d after sowing. The use of B6144F-MR-6-0-0 with high yield potential as well as strong ability to recover from weed competition appears to improve and stabilize rice productivity in this region.

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