A study was carried out in Pedra Petra-MT aiming to study the relation between seed bank and posterior aboveground weed in annual crop fields under no-till and tillage systems. The seed bank and weed flora were assessed in fifty contiguous 1 m² cells, under both cultivation systems. The seed bank was determined from soil samples from 4% of the area of each cell at 0-5 cm depth using the flotation technique. The aboveground weed vegetation was evaluated by six successive surveys until November 2004, carried out in the total area of each cell, with removal of the individuals from the area after each evaluation. These data were used to calculate the phyto-sociological parameters and the correlation between the seed bank and aboveground weed. The similarity between the bank seed and the aboveground vegetation was low for both systems. Only Amaranthus deflexus and Eleusine indica showed to have significant correlation between bank seeds and the aboveground weed vegetation. For A. deflexus, the correlation was significant in both cultivation systems, while for E. indica, only under no-till.
Amaranthus deflexus; correlation; phytosociology
