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Comment: Number of sample populations required to determine the effects of herbicide resistance on plant growth and fitness
Author(s) -
COUSENS R. D.,
GILL G. S.,
SPEIJERS E JANE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
weed research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1365-3180
pISSN - 0043-1737
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3180.1997.tb01816.x
Subject(s) - herbicide resistance , biology , resistance (ecology) , population , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , demography , weed , sociology
Summary Experiments to determine the relative growth and fitness of herbicide–resistant and susceptible weeds commonly include only a single population of each. It is argued that such limited experimental designs can be misleading and should be avoided. Guidelines are given to aid decisions on choice of number of populations.