Research Article

Performance of Different Herbicides in Dry-Seeded Rice in Bangladesh

Table 5

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

Weed control treatmentsAgeratum conyzoides Cyperus rotundus Celosia
argentea
Digitaria ciliaris Echinochloa colona Phyllanthus
niruri
Total weed biomass

Partial weedy2.60 (6.3)3.77 (13.8)3.12 (9.3)6.29 (39.1)6.23 (38.4)2.42 (5.6)10.63 (112.4)
Oxadiargyl fb ethoxysulfuron1.00 (0.7)2.03 (4.1)1.42 (2.5)3.53 (12.1 )3.69 (13.2)0.71 (0.0)5.74 (32.5)
Pendimethalin fb ethoxysulfuron1.14 (1.2)2.12 (5.1)3.04 (8.8)3.74 (14.0)3.42 (11.3)2.01 (3.7)6.67 (44.1)
Acetachlor + bensulfuranmethyl fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)1.78 (3.3)2.79 (7.3)5.50 (30.6)4.65 (21.3)0.71 (0.0)7.90 (62.5)
Pyrazosulfuron fb ethoxysulfuron0.71 (0.0)1.45 (2.7)1.27 (1.4)5.77 (34.3)5.03 (24.9)0.71 (0.0)7.97 (63.3)
Oxadiargyl fb 1 HW at 35 DAS1.29 (1.9)4.03 (16)1.27 (1.3)3.87 (14.7)3.92 (14.9)0.71 (0.0)7.01 (48.7)
Pendimethalin fb 1 HW at 35 DAS2.57 (6.4)4.61 (20.9)3.56 (12.2)3.62 (13.0)3.54 (12.5)1.40 (1.5)8.17 (66.3)
Acetachlor + bensulfuraonmethyl fb 1 HW at 35 DAS0.71 (0.7)3.24 (10.1)4.49 (19.7)5.36 (28.7)5.45 (29.6)0.71 (0.0)9.41 (83.4)
Pyrazosulfuron fb 1 HW at 35 DAS1.42 (1.8)3.70 (13.3)3.86 (14.5)6.00 (35.7)5.17 (27.9)0.83 (0.2)9.66 (80.1)
LSD0.051.001.450.911.441.290.830.98
value0.0030.002 <0.0010.0010.003 <0.001 <0.001

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