Bibliographic record
Abstract
Investigations into the biology and control of the annual grassy weed Bromus pectinatus Thunb. were conducted at the National Plant Breeding Station, Njoro, Kenya, from 1982 to 1984.\nPot growth of B. pectinatus was influenced by soil type and microclimate, but not by seed origin. B. pectinatus was germinated and grown in amended and untreated soils ranging in pH from 3.05 to 8.13. Soils with a pH near 3 could not support growth or germination of B. pectinatus. B. pectinatus grew best on a soil of pH 6.55 and when soil pH influenced germination the optimum soil pH was 6.0. \nExposure to light inhibited the germination of B. pectinatus seeds. Germination of B. pectinatus seed was most rapid at a 17 C temperature. Germination of dormant B. pectinatus seeds was enhanced by seed hull removal or pricking the lemma or removing the rachilla segment.\nGermination of B. pectinatus seed in the soil was unaffected by depth of burial, whereas, emergence was reduced to 35, 19, 11, 4 and 0% from depths of 0, 1, 2, 4 and 8 cm, respectively.\nThere was a relationship between field emergence of B. pectinatus and the precipitation pattern. After-harvest germination of B. pectinatus seed indicated that there was an innate dormancy in hulled seed which persisted for 8 months. \nField measurements were used to develop an equation which related yield loss in wheat with B, pectinatus infestation. Delayed sowing of wheat and barley into a B. pectinatus infested site resulted in yield reductions that were correlated with length of delay.\nReplacement series studies were conducted using varying proportions of wheat : B. pectinatus and rapeseed : B. pectinatus. Rapeseed / canola was unaffected by B. pectinatus interference.\nA spatial interference study determined that B. pectinatus interfers with wheat mainly above ground.\nThe herbicides isoproturon, pendimethalin and oxadiazon were found to be ineffective against B. pectinatus, The herbicides triallate, chlorsulfuron, metribuzin, trifluralin and EPTC achieved limited control of B, pectinatus. Superior control of B. pectinatus was achieved using fluazifop-butyl at 0.25 kg/ha and fenthiaprop-ethyl at 0.12 kg/ha, in rapeseed / canola.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".