Claim · model-written summary
Weed biomass in the organic (ORG) system increased over years relative to the conventional (CON) system during the cantaloupe season.
- Taxon
- cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe5 - Treatment
- ORGe5
- Interactor
- weede5weed
- Outcome
- weed biomasse5
- Direction
- increasede5
- Qualifier
- over yearse5
- Comparator
- CON systeme5
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Verbatim
e5“During the cantaloupe season, weed biomass in the ORG increased over years relative to the CON system”
Title
Summer Cover Crop and Management System affect Lettuce and Cantaloupe Production System
Guangyao Wang; Mathieu Ngouajio; Milton E. McGiffen; et al. Agronomy Journal 2008. doi:10.2134/agronj2008.0012
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Cowpea mulch (CPM) and incorporated sudangrass (SGI) increased soil organic matter content.
- Intervention effect Cowpea mulch (CPM) and incorporated sudangrass (SGI) changed the soil N profile.
- Intervention effect Soil organic matter was higher in the organic (ORG) management system.
- Intervention effect Nitrate leaching was lower in the organic (ORG) management system.
- Intervention effect Cowpea mulch (CPM) plots had less weed growth during the lettuce crop.
- Intervention effect Cowpea mulch (CPM) plots had higher weed biomass during the cantaloupe crop in the first year.
- Intervention effect The CPI plots had the highest lettuce yield in the first 2 years.
- Intervention effect The SGI and CPI treatments had higher cantaloupe yield.
- Intervention effect Lettuce yield in the organic (ORG) system increased over years relative to the conventional (CON) system.
- Intervention effect Cantaloupe yield in the organic (ORG) system was lower in all four seasons.
- Observation Soil and plants previously under long-term conventional management changed significantly during organic transition.
- Recommendation Cover crops could be used to improve cropping systems.