ReviewWeed research2015
A review of the potential for competitive cereal cultivars as a tool in integrated weed management.
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31 citing papers in PubMed.
- VERNALIZATION2 alters early tiller development in a facultative spring hexaploid bread wheat.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- The effects of different sowing methods on the yield and quality of cereal species in forage production.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Preliminary Study on Synergistic Effects of Humic Acid and Seaweed Extract on Cereal Crop Yield and Competitiveness with Wild Weed Beets (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evolution and Future Directions in Herbicide-Resistant Crop Development and Weed Management.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Clash of the Invaders: Competition Dynamics ofEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Plant-microbe interactions: PGPM as microbial inoculants/biofertilizers for sustaining crop productivity and soil fertility.Current research in microbial sciences · 2025Review
- Ecological implications of row width and cultivar selection on rice (Oryza sativa) and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Preliminary report on the comparative weed suppressibility of Bangladeshi Wheat varieties.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Agronomic and Environmental Determinants of Direct Seeded Rice in South Asia.Circular economy and sustainability · 2023Review
- A trait-environment relationship approach to participatory plant breeding for organic agriculture.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Identification of Weed-Suppressive Tomato Cultivars for Weed Management.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Barley Cultivars for Competitive Traits in Southern New South Wales.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Tracking Ideal Varieties and Cropping Techniques for Agroecological Weed Management: A Simulation-Based Study on Pea.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Biotechnological Road Map for Innovative Weed Management.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Weed competitive ability in wheat: a peek through in its functional significance, present status and future prospects.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2021Review
- Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Review
- Agricultural intensification and climate change have increased the threat from weeds.Global change biology · 2021Article
- Light signalling shapes plant-plant interactions in dense canopies.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Review
- From Traditional Breeding to Genome Editing for Boosting Productivity of the Ancient Grain Tef [Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Herbicide Resistance: Another Hot Agronomic Trait for Plant Genome Editing.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Competitive crop cultivars offer a potentially cheap option to include in integrated weed management strategies (IWM). Although cultivars with high competitive potential have been identified amongst cereal crops, competitiveness has not traditionally been considered a priority for breeding or farmer cultivar choice. The challenge of managing herbicide-resistant weed populations has, however, renewed interest in cultural weed control options, including competitive cultivars. We evaluated the current understanding of the traits that explain variability in competitive ability between cultivars, the relationship between suppression of weed neighbours and tolerance of their presence and the existence of trade-offs between competitive ability and yield in weed-free scenarios. A large number of relationships between competitive ability and plant traits have been reported in the literature, including plant height, speed of development, canopy architecture and partitioning of resources. There is uncertainty over the relationship between suppressive ability and tolerance, although tolerance is a less stable trait over seasons and locations. To realise the potential of competitive crop cultivars as a tool in IWM, a quick and simple-to-use protocol for assessing the competitive potential of new cultivars is required; it is likely that this will not be based on a single trait, but will need to capture the combined effect of multiple traits. A way needs to be found to make this information accessible to farmers, so that competitive cultivars can be better integrated into their weed control programmes.
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