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Effect Of Different Control Methods On Weeds, Yield Components And Nodulation In The Spring Lentil, Işik Tepe, Murat Erman, Ayşe Yazlik, Remzi̇ Levent, Kuddusi̇ İpek

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study was conducted on the lentil cultivar Malazgirt 89 during 1999 and 2000 to determine the most appropriate method for controlling weeds. In the experiments, hand hoeing, trifluralin, imazethapyr, linuron, prometryn, phenmedipham + desmediphame, trifluralin + hand hoeing and linuron + hand hoeing which should be used as an alternative to hand weeding, were tested. The effects of herbicides on nodulation in lentils were also investigated. Centaurea depressa in the first year, and Ranunculus arvensis and Acroptilon repens in the second year were the dominant weed species encountered in the plots. A combination of linuron + hand hoeing, linuron …