[PDF] Top 20 Cover Crop Biomass Production Is More Important than Diversity for Weed Suppression

... other than harvest, are integrated into cropping systems to achieve a variety of ...goals. Cover crops can be used to conserve and enhance soil quality, provide resources to biodiversity, break pest and ... See full document

... an important compo- nent of Integrated Weed Management (IWM) in sugar beet ...soil cover with plant mulches by different cover crop mulches (Kassam et ...using cover crop ... See full document

... an important role in sugar beet ...the crop yield may be lost because of weed competition if weed control is poor or is not performed at all (Kropff & Spitters ...Effective weed ... See full document

... of biomass production was assessed using two concepts of stability, static and dynamic ...of biomass across growing conditions for each cover crop species and mixture was ...stable ... See full document

... the weed control efficacy was improved by 28% by extending the growth period by about 8 weeks (Anugroho et ...2009). Cover crop fertilization can increase its biomass and achieve an enhanced ... See full document

... mature cover crop without cutting the stems (Rodale Institute ...soybean production, rye is typically the cover crop of choice due to its high biomass production, early ... See full document

... ground cover and above ground biomass of perennial grasses compared to forbs and annuals in the rehabilitated area could be due to reduced grazing pressure in the rehabilitated ...lower biomass ... See full document

... as diversity, competition and facilitation in agriculture is gaining increasing interest in order to combine high productivity and reduced use of external inputs (Hauggaard-Nielsen et ...for weed ... See full document

... rye cover crop, vernal type barley, autumnal type wheat along with 2 control treatment (1: without cover crops and with weeding the weeds, 2: without cover crops and without the ...of ... See full document

... selected as the best habitat variables across different taxonomic plants groups. The[r] ... See full document

... encountered weed species in upland rice-based systems in West Africa, were listed as ...of weed occurrence in agro-ecological zones, because of temporal and spatial variability in weed species ... See full document

... soil biomass in particular earthworms. Earthworm biomass is much higher in soils fertilized with organic manure and grass clover in the crop rotation as compared to conventional plant ... See full document

... of more than 3000 phytoplankton samples from freshwater and brackish habitats showed that species richness is the best predictor for resource use efficiency (= phototrophic carbon assimilation per unit of ... See full document

... In South East Asia, weeds cause yield losses of 10-46% and occasionally up to 100% in rice. Hand weeding is the most common method of weed control in rice in Pakistan. However it is labour intensive and expensive. ... See full document

... belowground biomass production of hairy vetch and the related high C input led to an increase of SOM even after incorporation of one harvest of ...vegetable production resulted in a wide range of SOC ... See full document

... of crop stand explained a large share of the varia- tion in the species ...of crop stand, ...an important variable among the crop stand ...of crop stand is an important factor ... See full document

... from each plot from the initial two harvests of each year. Across both studies, rootstock had no effect on SSC or lycopene content. As reported in previous studies, flesh firmness was increased as a result of grafting, ... See full document

... PRODIVA: Pro Diversity Better utilization of crop diversification strategies for weed management in North European organic arable cropping systems.. To maintain diverse arable weed veget[r] ... See full document

... of weed families in agronomical schemes and cultivation systems (Khan and Marwat, 2006; Armengot et ...onion crop is various cropping zones and cultivation ...different weed species in onion field ... See full document

... the biomass of mixed annual weeds was lower when maize was grown in 50 cm than in 76 cm inter rows space (Murphy et ...1996). Weed biomass production was reduced more by ... See full document