Effect of Lablab purpureus L. cover crop and imidazolinone resistant (IR) maize on weeds in drought prone areas, Kenya

Agronomic Performance and Sensory Evaluation of Lablab (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet) Accessions for Human Consumption in Uganda

“…Although preference ranking and logistic regression analyses of the probabilities of acceptance of six different legume cover crops (mucuna, canavalia, lablab, crotalaria, tithonia, tephrosia) graded lablab species with low probability of being accepted or adopted due to its inability to produce sufficient seed [4], and slow initial field establishment [15], its multi-purpose nature made it one of the legume cover crops that can be highly preferred and probably widely adopted by farmers because of its ability to provide multiple farmers' requirements including human food [1], animal feed [6] [16], medicine [9], mulch [17], weed control [18] and soil fertility improvement [19] [20].…”

Weed control under conservation agriculture in dryland smallholder farming systems of southern Africa. A review

“…Intercropping maize with lablab in a semi-arid area of Kenya reduced the weed density of Portulaca quadrifida L. and Paraknoxia parviflora L. but increased E. indica L. density (Mwangi et al 2015). Although overall weed density was not affected, the study found that the density of broadleaf weed species was negatively affected by lablab intercropping, while annual species were positively affected (Ibid).…”

“…Seed coatings therefore appear to be a more targeted and an effective approach to combatting certain parasitic weed species (see Table 5), although the impacts of seed coatings on other important weed and crop species would need to be studied. While herbicide resistance can be induced through genetic modification, imazapyr-resistant (IR) maize was developed through conventional breeding methods (Mwangi et al 2015), thereby making this technique more acceptable to farmers and governments reticent or unable to use genetically modified crops.…”