
%0 Journal Article
%A Roget, DK 
%A Venn, NR 
%A Rovira, AD 
%T Reduction of Rhizoctonia root rot of direct-drilled wheat by short-term chemical fallow
%J Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
%D 1987/06/01
%V 27
%N 3
%P 425-430
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9870425
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EA9870425 
%X This study has demonstrated that volunteer pasture, comprising mainly barley grass and ryegrass, which grows over several weeks between autumn rains and seeding, promotes damage to roots of direct-drilled wheat caused by Rhizoctonia solani. A chemical fallow, in which the volunteer pasture was sprayed 3-6 weeks before seeding, greatly reduced the root damage (based on visual ratings) caused by R. solani on direct-drilled wheat in the field and in a controlled- environment experiment in which field conditions were simulated. In the field experiment, grain yields of direct-drilled wheat following pasture in plots treated with herbicides was 2.2 t/ha compared with 1.2 t/ha in untreated plots. The application of herbicides did not affect the yields of wheat sown following cultivation. 
