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Soil Acidity - High Rainfall Pastures, J S. Yeates, D. A. Mcghie, D A. Tooke, M. F. Clarke

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

A. Lime on old land pastures. 80BU13, 80BU14, 80BU15, 80BU16, 80BU17, 80BY7, 80BY16, 81AL10, 81AL11, 8IAL12, 81AL13, 81AL14, 81AL15, 81AL16, 81BU18, 81BY15, 81BY16, 81BY17, 81BY18, 81BY19, 81BY24, 81BY25, 81BY16, 81MA12, 81W9, 81Wl0, 81Wll, 82AL2, 82AL3, 82AL4, 82ALS, 82AL6, 82ALSS, 82BU6, 82BU7, 82BU8, 82BY37, 82HA35, 82HA36, 82HA38, 82MA20, 82PE1, 83AL7, 83AL8, 83AL9, 83AL10, 83AL11, 83AL12, 83AL13, 83AL14, 83BU20, 83BU24, 83BU25, 83BU26, 83BY29, 83HA19, 83HA40, 83HA41.

B. Lime on new land pastures 82AL7, 82AL8.

Oilseed Agronomy, A G. Mckay

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Seeding rates for Wesbrook 83MT56 Interstate rapeseed variety testing 83MT47 Fusilade on rapeseed 83MT57 Triazine resistant rapeseed 83MT55 Rapeseed windrowing - time of harvest 83MA9

Grain Legume Agronomy Programme, G H. Walton

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Lupin agronomy, Series 1 - Growth factor Interactions – 83BA6, 83JE3, 83NO4, 83NO5. Lupin growth and subsequent cereal crop yield – 82N18.

2. Lupin agronomy, Series 2 - Lupin response to Density, Harvest Index and yield – 83BA8, 83M4, 83MT6, 83N3.

3. Eregulla lupin rotation plots – 83MO27, 83M029 and 83M030.

4. Grain legume species trials: 4.1. Species comparison x site interaction – 83GE3, 83JE2, 83JE3, 83N2. 4.2. Preliminary examination of Simazine and Fusilade on legume species – 83NO6. 4.3. Species growth study – 83BA7, 83NO6.

5. Field pea agronomy - Density and time - 83N4, …

Residue Trials, Herbicide Incorporation And Leaching Of Chlorsulfuron, T Piper

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Residue Trials: Breakdown rates have been established for trifluralin at Wongan Hills and Avondale over the past two seasons. The decay curve follows a hyperbolic curve rather than the expected exponential curve with constant half life, probably due to the considerable loss of chemical by volatalization in the first few days, before biological decomposition takes over as the main breakdown factor.

b) Herbicide Incorporation. Du Pont Zl96 fluorescent orange powder at 30 g/m2 could be readily seen when illuminated by 400 yw/cm2 of 365 nm UV radiation, and was successfully photographed on Ektachrome 400 ASA film with a 4 sec. …

Barley Foliage Diseases, T N. Khan, K. Brain, M Judges

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

General comments and highlights

Scald: Effect of time of application - 83BA10, 83MT9.

Scald: Effect of rate of fungicide – 83BA11.

Scald: Comparing fungicides – 83BA42.

Scald: Effect of seeding rate – 83BA12, 83MT10.

Scald: Response to fungicide in farmer's field – 83AL18, 83AL81, 83AL82.

Scald: Variation in pathogenicity – 83AB11, 83BA13, 83MT11, 83WH7.

Scald: Cultivar x fungicide in farmer's field – 83LG63.

Net Blotch: Potential yield losses – 83A15, 83BA15, 83WH6.

Net Blotch: Screening new fungicides – 83BA43.

Spot-type net blotch: Potential yield losses – 83C5.

Spot-type net blotch: Sources of resistance - Chapman Research Station, Nabawa.

Powdery mildew …

Annual Medics For The Kalgoorlie Region And Adjacent Eastern Rangeland Zones, G Gintzburger

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Species selection and establishment methods Extensive overgrazing and burning of the dominant winter rainfall Goldfields pastoral zones have left large areas degraded with a poor annual vegetation cover of nearly no grazing value. Thus, more grazing pressure is exerted on shrubs and small trees accelerating the desertification process. Shrubs and trees are the main stabilising agent left in a rangeland plant community when alI annuals have been grazed out. In order to upgrade or regenerate some of these areas, conventional methods of grazing prohibition or deferred grazing can be used but often, improvement obtained are slow. It is hypothesized that …

Raw Water Quality In The New Charleston, Illinois Pump Storage Reservoir, Kevin G. Lookis

Masters Theses

Charleston, Illinois, a city located in east-central Illinois, recently implemented a new concept in a raw water system. Due to storage capacity-sedimentation problems in the old Lake Charleston-Embarras River raw water supply, the Charleston Pump Storage Reservoir was constructed. The new system involved building a dike separating the Lake Charleston impoundment from the Embarras River. Water to increase the storage capacity of the reservoir can now be selectively pumped into the impoundment from the river.

Raw water quality in the reservoir was monitored on a weekly basis for a full year from August, 1981 to August, 1982. The levels of …

A Hydrochemical Reconnaissance Study Of The Walker River Basin, California And Nevada, Larry Benson, R. J. Spencer

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

During 1975 and 1976, a large number of water and sediment samples were collected from the Walker River Basin. Additional surface water samples were collected during 1980 and 1981. Data are given herein for chemical analyses of snowmelt, tributary, river, spring, well, lake, reservoir, lake sediment pore fluid, tufa, lake and river sediment samples. These data provide the basis for consideration of processes which govern the chemical evolution of large closed basin hydrologic systems in the Basin and Range Province of the Southwestern United States.

The Walker River Basin, a part of the Basin and Range Province, is located i~ …

A Pore Water/Solid Phase Diagenetic Model For Manganese In Marine Sediments, David J. Burdige, Joris M. Gieskes

OES Faculty Publications

A steady state diagenetic model is developed which accounts for changes in both the pore water and solid phase manganese profiles in marine sediments as a result of advection, diffusion, and redox reactions. The model is applied to observations on two cores in the E equatorial Atlantic in which pore water and solid phase manganese data are available. In situ reaction rates for manganese oxidation and reduction are estimated. The oxidation rates calculated here are in good agreement with rates measured in laboratory studies. In addition, the calculated manganese oxidation and reduction rates are compared with other estimated rates for …

Analysis Of Heavy Minerals In Arenaceous Lutites From The Northern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kim Zauderer

OES Theses and Dissertations

Heavy minerals from arenaceous lutites in three widely spaced cores from the northern Canada Basin were analyzed for the first time to determine the provenance of these sediments. The abundant minerals (sp. gr. == 2.70) in decreasing order for most samples were detrital carbonate, micas, clinoamphibole, clinopyroxene, garnet, epidote, tourmaline, and chlorite. The majority of pyroxene grains were etched. Sedimentary sources dominated and metamorphic and igneous sources were important but secondary. The northern Canada Arctic Archipelago and northern Greenland is proposed as the provenance for the heavy minerals in the arenaceous lutites for at least the past three million years. …

The Effects Of Varying Fresh Water Discharge On Dispersion In An Estuarine Hydraulic Model Of The Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Michael J. Jugan

OES Theses and Dissertations

Three experimental tests were conducted in the Lafayette River branch of the Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model, each successive test with an increase in the amount of fresh water discharged into the head of the river. This was done to study the response from varying river discharge on mixing parameters including the longitudinal dispersion coefficient (E).

The model generated a tide of constant range and period. Batch releases of Rhodamine WT dye were made in the model and sampled throughout the river for ten tidal cycles. Samples were taken simultaneously at selected high and low water slack.

The calculation of the …

Atrazine Degradation, Sorption And Bioconcentration In Water Systems, Duane C. Wolf, Ramon L. Jackson

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

The herbicide atrazine is used extensively to control broadleaf and grass weeds in such crops as sorghum and corn. A small portion of the atrazine may be lost from the area of application by surface runoff and could enter a stream or lake. The objective of this study was to evaluate atrazine degradation, sorption, and bioconcentration in watersediment systems. The results indicated that sediments with lower pH values and higher organic matter levels adsorbed higher levels of atrazine than sediments with neutral pH values and lower organic matter levels. Microbial decomposition of the herbicide was slow under the conditions of …

An Ecological Analysis Of Relic Diatoms In Sediments Of Las Vegas Bay, Lake Mead, David Ross Hetzel

Publications (WR)

Relic diatoms in sediments of the inner Las Vegas Bay, near the Las Vegas Wash sewage inflow, were examined in order to assess historic trophic conditions in this area of Lake Mead. Diatom sedimentation rates and ratios of Araphidineae/Centrales (A/C) diatom groups were determined from sediment cores collected in the old wash channel 1.5 km from the sewage inflow (station 2), in a small cove 1.5 km further downstream (station 3) and in an adjacent embayment off Gypsum Wash (station 4). Diatom sedimentation rates generally increased from the bottom to the top of each core, but pronounced minima existed at …

Plant Viruses., G. D. Mclean, L. K. Price, J. A. Weir, J. M. Allen, P. Fievez, P. A. Portmann, R. J. Mclean, J. D. Sandow

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Clover viruses, 82ES38, 82AL47, 82MA19, 82BR19, 82BY29; 82BU5, 82HA9. Lupin virus, diseases. Barley yellow dwarf virus, 82AL46, 82AL51, 82B10, 82BA33, 82BR16, 82BR18, 82C29, 82E27, 82ES37, 82ES40, 82JE19, 82JE20, 82KA33, 82KA34, 82ABI3, 82MA18, 82MN22, 82MT34, 82NA32, 82WH28,82B8, 82MN17, 82E24, 82MT30, 82E25, 82MN18, 82MT31, 82B9, 82ABI2, 82BA31, 82C26, 82JE17, 82WH27, 82AL45, 82BR17, 82ES39, 82MA1, 82MA117, 82MT33,

Sorrel, Dicamba Soil Residual Effects, Glean, Veldt Grass, Declared Weeds Blackberry, Pattersons Curse, Penny Royal, J Moore

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

CONCLUSIONS This trial has confirmed the field observation that 2,4,5-T whilst giving good initial control of Pennyroyal, fails after a number of years. Round up has a far longer term effect. This can only be attributed to a more complete initial kill as both herbicides are essentially non residual. Further work needs to be conducted on Round up in combination with soil residual chemicals or multiple applications to overcome the problem of reinfestation from seed reserves. 81A1 -01

Grapevines - Herbicide Tolerance, Sorrel - Effects Of Nutrients, Bracken - Wick Application, Pennyroyal - Control, Blackberry – Control., John Moore

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Grapevines - Herbicide tolerance Sorrel -Effects of Nutrients Bracken- Wick application Pennyroyal - Control Blackberry - Control 82 MT 57, 82 MT 58, 82 MT 59, 81 MT 60, 80 KA 40, 80KA39, 82 AL 48, 80 AL 10, 81 AL 101,

Oilseed Agronomy., A. G. Mckay

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Time of nitrogen application on rapeseed, 82MT39. Time of sowing x rate of nitrogen on rapeseed, 82MA16, 82AL42. Oilseed phenology trials brassica species, 82A5, 82BA40, 82C35, 82E30, 82M33, 82MT36, 82WH29. Rapeseed windrowing, time of harvest, 82MT35, 82AL50. Shattering differences among rapeseed lines, 82MT37, 82WH30. Wesroona reselection evaluation, 82MT38. Triazine herbicide resistant rapeseed, 82GL12. Podquat on rape seed 82MT54. Sunflower varieties, winter sown, 82GE31

1. Phosphorus Sources Trials 2. Miscellaneous Trials, J W. Bowden, R J. Lunt, M J. Baker

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Sources of phosphorus trials - 1982 results. Pasture Trials, 76MT10, 77MT1, 77MT2, 76BU1, 77EI. Cropping Trials, 76WH14, 76WH10, 76WH9, 76N4, 76LG6, 80BA6. Trials not assessed in 1982, 77WH2 Pasture phase. Miscellaneous trials. Long term trials, 66M30, 65Al, 65A1, 65C5, 69WH15, 75LG26, 81N044, 78BA7. 1982 Trials, 82N04, 82BA2, 82N02, 82N05, 82WH2, 81N044.

Soil Physical Conditions And Crop Production, A. P. Hamlin

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1a. Differences in water balance and resultant crop growth related to soil structure: Merredin red brown solonized earth. 1b. Soil structure effects on crop growth (Merredin). 77M13, 77M56. 2. Water balance studies under wheat on Wongan loamy sand (82WH8)

Summary Of Experimental Results., J. Peirce, B. J. Rayner

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

81GE22. 81GE28, soursob control. 81N056, in cereals. 81N057. 82LG34, chemical x water volumes (broadleaved weeds). 82LG36, hoegrass, rate x volume (ryegrass). 82N039, crop damage in wheel tracks x spraying. 82N043, ropewick for cape tulip control. 82NR3, patersons curse control in hay crops. 82NR8, patersons curse control in hay crops. 82N055, hoegrass, rate x volume (wild oats). 82N056, chemical x volume (broadleaved weeds). Demonstration, soursob control in cereals. 82ME44, matricaria control in cereals. 82ME57, crop damage in wheel tracks x spraying. 82ME59, chemical x volume (broadleaved weeds). 82ME60, hoegrass, rate x volume (ryegrass). 82ME81, matricaria control in pastures. 82ME86, cereal tolerance …

Phosphorus Nutrition On Leaching Sands., D. M. Deeley, S. M. Mason, B. G. Barker

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The excessive amounts of nutrients entering the Peel-Harvey Estuarine system have resulted in a marked increase in the abundance of algal species .within the estuary and reduced production on the sandy coastal soils of the catchment from which the nutrients are being leached. Recent stream samplings by D.C.E have shown that the deep grey Bassendean sands may be contributing up to 40 per cent of the total P loading in the Harvey River. Agriculture Department trials around Albany on similar sands have shown that up to 80 per cent of the bicarb extractable P may be lost after only 150 …

Low Rainfall Pasture Project., M. Ewing

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1. Variety Trials - large plots: 82ME47, 82ME48, 82ME49, 82ME50, 82ME51, 82M27, 82N044, 82N31, 82TS27, 82LG32, 82TS32 2. Variety Tests – rows: 82M40, 82M44, 82M45, 82M49, 82M59, 82ME77. 3. Pasture Establishment and Re-establishment: 82M41, 82M42. 4. Lupins - Rates of P. 82ME64.

Alternative Pasture Species To Ryegrass For Areas Affected By Annual Ryegrass Toxicity., P. Dixon

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The aim of this project is to find alternative pasture species to ryegrass in areas which are affected by Annual Ryegrass Toxicity, 82 KA 45. Pasture species row evaluation, 82 KA 40. Pasture species row evaluation, 82 KA 41. Pasture species row evaluation, 82 KA 42. Pasture species row evaluation, 82 KA 43. Medic species trial, 82 KA 44. Medic species trial, 82 KA 45.

Diseases Of Lupins And Lupinosis., P M. Wood

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Lupin diseases, 82 TS 30, 82 TS 29, 82 TS 28, 82 GE 24, 82 ME 45, 82 ME 46, 82 BR 20,

Pasture Species Investigations High Rainfall Area., D. A. Nicholas

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Selection of an alternative to cv Woogenellup clover. 79MT48, Mount Barker research station. 79MA13, Palgarup. 80AL59, Narribup. 80BR18, Mayanup. 80BU7, Vasse. 81NA37, North Bannister. 81PE6, Byford. 82NA36, West Wandering. 82AL72, South Stirlings. Screening of midseason to late maturing lines of subterranean clover. 82BU12, Karridale. 82AL71, Cuthbert.

Long Term Rotation Trials, Lupins, Wheat Rotation, Continuous Cropping With Nitrogenous Fertiliser, I. Rowland

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Long Term Rotation Trials, 66M29, 67C13, 67N4, 68E5, 68SG5, 73SG16. Lupins, wheat rotation, 79GE36, 80TS3, 82TS2. Continuous cropping with nitrogenous fertiliser, 80NA6.

The Geology Of The Oceanographer Transform Fault, Richard H. Moody Jr.

Geology Theses and Dissertations

A detailed survey of the Oceanographer transform fault and environs at 35º N, 35ºW has yielded detailed information with respect to the generation and evolution of seafloor at a slowly accreting plate margin. From this data detailed bathymetric maps and maps of depth to basement have been constructed for a swath of seafloor 1800 km long and 100-200 km wide centered about the offset region. This data was used to subdivide major phases of seafloor spreading during the Tertiary. The ridge crest and all major topographic features near the transform appear to be affected by their proximity to the transform. …

1. Doublegee Dormancy 2. Lupins - Chemical Tolerance Of Kiev Mutant 3. Lupins - Simazine And Diuron Plus Mixtures 4. Lupins - Pp009 5. Lupins - New Herbicides 6. Lupins - Ssh 0860, D. J. Gilbey, R. Klemm

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Doublegee seed longevity x cultivation - 75WH65, Doublegee seed longevity x depth- Effect of burial on longevity of doublegee achenes - 75WH66, 76C9, 76KA8, 82 N 25, 82 N 24, 82 N 30, 82 LG 30, 82 LG 33, 82 KA 35, 82 KA 36, 82TS38, 82GE33, 82TS37, 82ME62, 82BA42, 82GE35, 82TS36, 82 NO 62, 82 ME 83, 82GE36, 82TS35, 82ME63B, 82M038, 82GE32, 82BA41, 82ME63A,

Experimental. Summary 1982 Trials., J E. Holmes, R J. Thomas

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Brome grass, Barley grass, Silver grass, Rye grass, Tank mixes for minimum tillage, Grass herbicides for pastures. 82N41, 82BA48, 82WH44, 82N38, 82GL39, 82Ge40, 82TS39, 82Lg43, 82Ba47, 82WH47, 82Lg44, 82Me65, 82Lg43, 82Nr10, 82MT46, 82N39, 82Ba45, 82LG48, 82M48, 82Na34, 82Ka38, 82WH45, 82Ba46 and 82N40.

Deep Ripping Effects On Cultivation Pans, Root Growth, Crop Growth, Soil Water Relations And Yields., D. Tennant

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Experiment programme. 77WH17, 82WH2, 82WH35, 82WH36, 81M52.