The effect of living mulches and conventional methods of weed control on weed infestation and potato yield

Kołodziejczyk, Marek

doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2015.05.016

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“…Plants growing in fields infested with weeds produce lower yields of, usually, poorer quality. Moreover, they require higher labour input and production costs [11][12][13]. Ilić et al [11] showed that in experimental plots with herbicide application, potato yield was by 32% higher in relation to the yield from untreated experimental plots.…”

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Marketable Yield of Potato and Its Quantitative Parameters after Application of Herbicides and Biostimulants

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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is grown in over 160 countries. Weed competition and environmental stressors during the vegetative growth stage significantly impact crop yields. An experiment was conducted from 2012 to 2014 in Poland to assess the effect of herbicides linuron + clomazone (L+CH) and metribuzin (M) as well as herbicides mixed with biostimulants (linuron + clomazone and algae extract of Ecklonia maxima—auxins and gibberellins (L+CH+E) and metribuzin + sodium p-nitrophenolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate (M+S)) on weed infestation, marketable yield and yield components of the following three table potato cultivars: Bartek, Gawin and Honorata. In plots where potato had been treated with herbicides and herbicides mixed with biostimulants, a decline in the fresh matter of weeds was observed, ranging from 72.4% to 96.1%, which was followed by an increase in potato marketable yield (from 27.5% to 61%) and improved parameters of S. tuberosum yield components, compared with the control. Linear correlation coefficients indicated that the following characteristics: marketable yield, weight of tubers per plant and average weight per tuber were associated with weed infestation determined prior to potato harvest.

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Marketable Yield of Potato and Its Quantitative Parameters after Application of Herbicides and Biostimulants

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“…Furthermore, mulches can significantly improve topsoil temperature, which benefits seed germination and root growth during the early stages of plant development ( Ren et al, 2017 ). The use of mulch in agriculture provides many other benefits to the soil by adjusting the microbial biomass ( Muñoz et al, 2017 ), increasing nutrient cycling ( Kader et al, 2017 ), reducing soil CO 2 emission ( Dossou-Yovo et al, 2016 ), maintaining the soil organic carbon balance ( Wang et al, 2016 ), enhancing soil aggregate stability ( Wang et al, 2017 ), promoting soil enzyme activity ( Qian et al, 2015 ) and suppressing weed infestation ( Kołodziejczyk, 2015 ). In general, among mulching approaches, the application of mulch in combination with appropriate nitrogen (N) fertilizer application or drip fertilization has the best performance in terms of promoting agricultural production.…”

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Effects of Plastic Mulching and Basal Nitrogen Application Depth on Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Yield in Maize

Wang

Xing

et al. 2018

Front. Plant Sci.

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The demand for increased grain production to support population and consumption growth has led to increased interest in field management approaches that incorporate plastic mulching and fertilization management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of plastic mulching and basal nitrogen (N)-fertilizer application depth on N balance estimations, N use efficiency (NUE) and maize yield. The experiment was conducted in 2014 and 2015 with six treatments: no N fertilizer and no mulching (CK), traditional broadcast N fertilizer with mulching (T0), basal N-fertilizer application at a depth of 6 cm with no mulching (T1), basal N-fertilizer application at a depth of 6 cm with plastic mulching (T2), basal N-fertilizer application at a depth of 12 cm with no mulching (T3) and basal N-fertilizer application at a depth of 12 cm with plastic mulching (T4). Mulching and basal N-fertilizer application depth each had significant effects on grain yield, but there were no significant interactions between them. The highest grain yield was observed in the T2 treatment and was 89.1% and 99.8% higher than the grain yield in the CK treatment in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The N uptake in T2 was 21.3% and 25.3% higher than that in the T0 treatment in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Relative to the value in the T0 treatment, the mean N loss over the 2 years was reduced by 34.6% in T2 and by 39.8% in T4. The basal N-fertilizer application depth of 12 cm yielded an obvious increase in NUE, but a high N residual remained below 50 cm after harvest, indicating the higher potential for N losses. In addition, the field application of this type of fertilizer management would require more labor in the absence of the implementation of mechanization. Based on the results, basal N-fertilizer application a depth of 6 cm without plastic mulching is recommended because it significantly increased grain yield and NUE, reduced N loss and requires no investment in plastic film, which are conducive to food security and environmental conservation.

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“…For example, in Poland Kordas (2009) found the average yield of winter wheat in 3 years of monoculture to be lower under RT by 14.5% and under no-tillage by 15.9% compared with TT. Impacts of crop cultivation systems, agrotechnical treatments on crop yields, plant uptake of macronutrients and biodiversity of the ecosystem have also been observed (Gajda et al, 2017(Gajda et al, , 2018Kołodziejczyk et al, 2017;Mühlbachová et al, 2015).…”

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Effects of reduced and traditional tillage on soil properties and diversity of diatoms under winter wheat

Stanek-Tarkowska¹,

Czyż²,

Dexter³

et al. 2018

International Agrophysics

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The aim of this study was to quantify soil properties, microbial biodiversity and crop yield under two tillage systems used for winter wheat production in monoculture. The study was conducted in the period 2013-2016, on a long-term field experiment on a silt loam at the Krasne Research Station near Rzeszów, Poland. Traditional tillage involved soil inversion whereas reduced tillage was a non-inversion system. The following soil properties: chemical (soil organic carbon, pH, available P, K, Mg), physical (soil bulk density, water content, stability in water), and biological (the diversity of diatoms) were measured on samples collected throughout the growing season and at harvest. Soil organic carbon content, water content and bulk density in the 0-5 and 5-10 cm layers were greater in reduced tillage than in traditional tillage. Under reduced tillage the amount of readily dispersible clay was reduced giving increased soil stability in water. Soil under reduced tillage had greater diversity of diatoms (139 taxa) than that under traditional tillage (102 taxa). Wheat yields were positively correlated with precipitation, soil water content and soil organic carbon, and negatively correlated with readily dispersible clay.

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The effect of living mulches and conventional methods of weed control on weed infestation and potato yield

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Marketable Yield of Potato and Its Quantitative Parameters after Application of Herbicides and Biostimulants

Marketable Yield of Potato and Its Quantitative Parameters after Application of Herbicides and Biostimulants

Effects of Plastic Mulching and Basal Nitrogen Application Depth on Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Yield in Maize

Effects of reduced and traditional tillage on soil properties and diversity of diatoms under winter wheat

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