Cereal curculio (Desiantha caudata) damage to wheat following different pre-sowing tillage programmes

dc.contributor	Grierson, IT
dc.contributor	Allen, PG
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-07T23:12:30Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-07T23:12:30Z
dc.date.issued	1977
dc.identifier.citation	Aust. J. Exp. Agr. (1977) 17(86): 466-468
dc.identifier.uri	http://livestocklibrary.com.au/handle/1234/24811
dc.description.abstract	In an experiment in South Australia wheat was grown following either long (ten months) o short (three months) fallows or established following treatment with herbicide two to three weeks before sowing (reduced tillage). Seedling numbers were reduced from a mean of 142 plants m-2 in the fallow treatments to 101 plants m-2 in the reduced tillage. Grain yields were also reduced from 3.55 t ha-1 in the fallow treatments to 2.30 t ha-1 under reduced tillage. The reductions were ascribed to attack by cereal curculio larvae (Desiantha caudata Pasc.) which were prevalent in the reduced tillage plots but absent where the land had been fallowed.
dc.publisher	CSIRO Publishing
dc.source.uri	http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=EA9770466.pdf
dc.title	Cereal curculio (Desiantha caudata) damage to wheat following different pre-sowing tillage programmes
dc.type	Research
dc.description.version	Journal article
dc.identifier.volume	17
dc.identifier.page	466-468
dc.identifier.issue	86