The competition is a negative interference in which individuals compete for environmental resources. The objective was to evaluate the competitiveness of goosegrass with soybean. The experiment was conducted in green-house conditions, in a completely randomized design with four replications. The treatments were five proportions of crop and weed, respectively, 8:0, 6:2, 4:4, 2:6 and 0:8, which corresponded to 100, 75, 50, 25 and 0% of plants soybean and opposite to the goosegrass, which constant population of eight plants per pot (8L), corresponding to approximately 250 plants m-2. The competitiveness analysis was accomplished through diagrams applied to replacement series experiments and competivity index. Soybean showed competitiveness superior to goosegrass for the variables of dry matter, when both were in similar proportions of plants.
Glycine max; Eleusine indica; competition; replacement series
