Managing junglerice in tree nut crops – a summer grass weed resistant to glyphosate

Cross posted from the UC Weed Science blog and originally written for the California Weed Science Society Research Update and News. -Brad Managing Junglerice in Tree Nut Crops – a summer weed resistant to glyphosate Marcelo L. Moretti1, Seth Watkins1, Bill Gary2, and Brad Hanson1 1University of California – Davis, CA; 2Mid Valley Ag – Linden, CA Junglerice, or Echinocloa colona, is a summer grass commonly found in orchards, annual crops, and roadsides of California. This weed germinates in early spring and throughout the summer and can grow and reproduce quickly. Junglerice commonly is identified by purple bands on the leaves.  However, in some populations or environmental conditions these stripes are less visible; thus a lack of banding should not be used as a definitive means of identification. In recent years, the feature that makes this summer grass really stand out in California fields is the discovery of glyphosate-resistant populations.

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Goosegrasses in nut orchards

Cross-post from UCWeedScience In the past couple of years, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about goosegrass in orchard production systems, particularly about suspected glyphosate-resistant biotypes. From a California orchard standpoint, we have two main goosegrasses (Eleusine spp) to deal with; these are goosegrass (Eleusine indica) and threespike goosegrass (Eleusine tristachya).  These species are fairly similar but have quite different flowers (see the photo below).

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Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Orchards – Recent UC IPM Publications

Last winter, I particpated in a series of seven half-day workshops in California, Oregon, and Washington on herbicide-resistant weeds.  These workshops were organized by Kassim Al-Khatib from the Univeristy of California Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program and had a special focus on glyphosate-resistant weeds in tree and vine crops. In preparation for these workshops, we wrote a series of extension publications that I wanted to share today.  The publications and resulting presentations were prepared by weed scientists from various Universities, Cooperative Extension, and USDA-ARS and included various aspects of herbicide resistance in permanent crops.  Even as somone who thinks about herbicide resistance every day, I found the bulletins and presentations to be tremendously informative.  These included: Selection Pressure, Shifting Populations, and Herbicide Resistance and Tolerance by Brad Hanson, Albert Fischer, Anil Shrestha, Marie Jasieniuk, Ed Peachey, Rick Boydston, Tim Miller, Kassim Al-Khatib. PPT slide handouts available here: Glyphosate Stewardship: Keeping an Effective Herbicide Effective by Tim Miller, Brad Hanson, Ed Peachey, Rick Boydston, Kassim Al-Khatib Preventing and Managing Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Orchards and Vineyards by Ed Peachey, Rick Boydston, Brad Hanson, Kassim Al-Khatib Managing Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Glyphosate-Resistant Crops by Kassim Al-Khatib, Brad Hanson, Tim Miller, Ed Peachey, Rick Boydston These bulletins are being published by UC-IPM and the near-final versions are available right now  at this link.  Or at: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/IPMPROJECT/glyphosateresistance.html. Take care, Brad Read more orchard weed management blog posts at UC Weed Science

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