Claim · model-written summary
Woodchip mulch reduced weed biomass by 51% in mixed lentil-barley cropping.
- Taxon
- lentil ( Lens culinaris )
Lens culinarise1 - Treatment
- woodchip mulche0
- Outcome
- weed biomasse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 51%e0
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Verbatim
e0“woodchip mulch reduced weed biomass and weed density (plants m −2 ) in both cropping systems, with a reduction by 43% and 29% (sole), and by 51% and 30% (mixed) respectively”
e1“lentil ( Lens culinaris )”
Title
Effects of woodchip mulch and barley intercropping on weeds in lentil crops
L WANG; S GRUBER; W CLAUPEIN Weed Research 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3180.2012.00905.x
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Woodchip mulch reduced weed biomass by 43% in sole-cropped lentil.
- Intervention effect Woodchip mulch reduced weed density by 29% in sole-cropped lentil.
- Intervention effect Woodchip mulch reduced weed density by 30% in mixed lentil-barley cropping.
- Intervention effect Barley intercropping significantly reduced weed biomass relative to lentil sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Barley intercropping had no effect on weed density.
- Observation Lentil yield in 2009 was 3.0–3.4 t ha −1 in sole cropping.
- Observation Lentil yield in 2009 was 2.1–2.2 t ha −1 in mixed cropping.
- Observation Lentil yield in 2010 was 1.0–1.1 t ha −1 in sole cropping.
- Observation Lentil yield in 2010 was 0.8–0.9 t ha −1 in mixed cropping.
- Observation Barley yield was 1.4 t ha −1 in 2009.
- Observation Barley yield was 0.7 t ha −1 in 2010.
- Intervention effect Mulch did not improve lentil grain yield.
- Intervention effect Mulch did not improve barley grain yield.
- Recommendation The authors recommend combining mulch and mixed cropping where other weed controls are unavailable.