Research Article

Performance of Different Herbicides in Dry-Seeded Rice in Bangladesh

Table 4

Effect of weed control treatments on weed biomass (g m−2) at 35 days after sowing in the boro season. Weed biomass data were subjected to square-root transformation before analysis; original values are shown in parentheses.

Weed control treatmentsAmaranthus spinosus Celosia argentea Cleome
rutidosperma
Cyperus rotundus Cynodon dactylon Echinochloa colona Total weed biomass

Partial weedy1.82 (2.8)2.19 (4.6)1.35 (1.4)3.24 (10.1)1.00 (0.5)2.25 (4.7)4.92 (24.1)
Oxadiargyl fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)0.71 (0.0)0.71 (0.0)2.19 (4.3)0.86 (0.2)0.89 (0.3)2.31 (4.9)
Pendimethalin fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)1.19 (0.9)0.71 (0.0)2.36 (5.1)0.92 (0.4)0.79 (0.1)2.65 (6.6)
Acetachlor + bensulfuranmethyl fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)1.24 (1.0)1.39 (1.5)2.07 (3.8)1.01 (0.6)0.80 (0.1)2.74 (7.0)
Pyrazosulfuron fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)1.23 (1.0)0.71 (0.0)1.85 (3.0)1.09 (1.0)1.15 (0.9)2.51 (5.9)
Oxadiargyl fb 1 HW at 35 DAS0.71 (0.0)0.71 (0.0)0.71 (0.0)3.01 (8.6)1.03 (0.8)0.71 (0.0)3.13 (9.4)
Pendimethalin fb 1 HW at 35 DAS0.71 (0.0)1.07 (0.6)0.71 (0.0)3.50 (11.9)0.73 (0.0)0.71 (0.0)3.60 (12.6)
Acetachlor + bensulfuraonmethyl fb 1 HW at 35 DAS1.22 (1.0)1.40 (1.5)0.84 (0.2)2.42 (5.5)0.76 (0.1)0.96 (0.4)3.02 (8.7)
Pyrazosulfuron fb 1 HW at 35 DAS1.27 (1.1)1.40 (1.5)0.71 (0.0)2.09 (3.9)0.98 (0.5)1.61 (2.3)3.10 (9.3)
LSD0.050.160.440.200.52NS0.400.63
value <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.0010.84 <0.001 <0.001

DAS: days after sowing; fb: followed by; HW: hand weeding; LSD: least significant difference at 5% level of significance; : probability.