
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grierson, IT 
A1  - Allen, PG 
T1  - Cereal curculio (<I>Desiantha caudata</I>) damage to wheat following different pre-sowing tillage programmes
JF  - Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
JO  - Aust. J. Exp. Agric.
Y1  - 1977
VL  - 17
IS  - 86
SP  - 466
EP  - 468
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9770466 
N2  - 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. 
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