Claim · model-written summary
Faba bean in rotation with wheat left less weed infestation than chickpea.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- faba beane0
- Outcome
- weed infestatione0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- chickpeae0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“faba bean appeared to be the better preceding or following wheat crop as it resulted in higher residual soil mineral N and lower weed infestation than chickpea”
t0“10-year no-till system”
Title
Massamba Diop; Adnane Beniaich; Harun Cicek; et al. Frontiers in Environmental Science 2024. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2024.1431822
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- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage reduced two topsoil water-capacity measures relative to continuous no till in year 1.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage lowered cation-exchange capacity at 0–10 cm versus no till without residue in year 1.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage lowered cation-exchange capacity at 10–20 cm versus no till with residue in year 1.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage raised ammonium N at both measured depths relative to no till with residue.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage reduced exchangeable potassium at 10–20 cm relative to no till without residue.
- Intervention effect Shallow occasional tillage lowered total porosity at 10–20 cm in year 2.
- Intervention effect Shallow occasional tillage raised water-stable aggregates in the topsoil in year 2.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage raised water-stable aggregates in the topsoil in year 2.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage lowered cation-exchange capacity at 10–20 cm in year 2.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage raised nitrate N at 10–20 cm in year 2.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage raised available sulfur at 10–20 cm in year 2.
- Intervention effect Occasional tillage had no significant effect on 10 of 19 soil properties, including soil organic matter.
- Intervention effect Occasional tillage did not reduce nutrient stratification under no till.
- Intervention effect Deep occasional tillage reduced weed density by 46% after 50 days in year 1.
- Intervention effect Shallow occasional tillage reduced weed density by 53% after 406 days in year 2.
- Intervention effect Faba bean in rotation with wheat left more residual soil mineral nitrogen than chickpea.