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Management of Weed Seed Bank Using Nanoparticles in Combination with Pendimethalin and Hydrogen Peroxide in Irrigated Blackgram (Vigna mungo L.)

Volume : 106
Issue: Jan-mar
Pages: 26 - 31
Published: August 08, 2025
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Abstract


Field experiments were carried at Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Tamil Nadu, during kharif and rabi seasons of 2017 - 2018, to study the effect of nanoparticles in combination with pendimethalin and hydrogen peroxide on weeds and blackgram crop. The experiments were laid out in randomized block design with twelve treatments and replicated thrice using blackgram MDU 1 as a test variety. Among the weed control treatments, application of H2O2 followed by Pendimethalin + Ag nanoparticles recorded lower weed index, total weed dry weight, total weed density and with higher weed control efficiency and yield of black gram in both the seasons. It was comparable with the application of pendimethalin (0.75 kg a.i. ha-1) + hand weeding at 35 DAS.

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26 - 31
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

Keywords


Blackgram Hydrogen peroxide Zinc oxide Silver Nanoparticles Pendimethalin and Weed Management
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