Claim · model-written summary
Fruit yield declined 38 kg per kg of weed biomass.
Lagenaria sicerariaVerbatim
e0“yield variation (−38 kg fruit per kg weed biomass; R 2 ≥ 0.88)”
t0“Bottle gourd”
Title
Prakash Mahala; Manpreet Singh; Sunayana; et al. Weed Research 2026. doi:10.1111/wre.70100
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron at 67.5 g ha −1 reduced total weed biomass by 80% versus untreated control.
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron at 67.5 g ha −1 was more effective than pendimethalin for weed biomass control.
- Association Total weed biomass explained 88% of yield variation at 35 days after sowing.
- Association Total weed biomass explained 89% of yield variation at 55 days after sowing.
- Association Purple nutsedge biomass accounted for 80%–84% of yield variance.
- Method / resource Regression identified weed biomass thresholds for 10% yield loss.
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron at 67.5 g ai ha −1 produced 46–47 t ha −1 bottle gourd yield, about 89% of weed-free yield.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding produced 46–47 t ha −1 bottle gourd yield, about 89% of weed-free yield.
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron at 52.5 g ai ha −1 was statistically equivalent to hand weeding for mustard emergence and early biomass.
- Intervention effect Pendimethalin was statistically equivalent to hand weeding for mustard emergence and early biomass.
- Intervention effect Halosulfuron at 67.5 g ha −1 failed equivalence criteria for mustard emergence and seed yield.
- Intervention effect ANOVA found no significant treatment effect on mustard seed yield.
- Recommendation The authors recommend caution with the higher halosulfuron rate for succeeding mustard.