Abstract
Leguminous cover crops (CCs) may reduce N fertilizer requirements by fixing N biologically and storing leftover N‐fertilizer applied in the previous year. The objective of this study was to determine the contribution of CCs [rye ( Secale cereal L.) and hairy vetch ( Vicia villosa Roth)] on plant N nutrition and weed suppression to the following sweet corn ( Zea mays L.). The CCs were planted in the fall of 2003 and 2005, and sweet corn was planted in spring of 2004 and 2006. The experiment contained N rates and CC treatments. In 2004, two CC treatments were tested: none and a CC mixture consisting of 67% rye and 33% hairy vetch. In 2006 the experiment contained five CC treatments (100% rye; 100% vetch; 67% rye and 33% vetch; 33% rye and 67% vetch; and none). Nitrogen rates of 0, 67, and 133 kg ha −1 were split‐applied at emergence, V3–4, and V9–10 growth stages. Two additional plots under non‐CC treatment received N rates of 200 or 267 kg ha −1 to develop a N response curve. Sweet corn growth, N‐accumulation, and yield were increased when CCs were presented for low‐fertilizer inputs. The N contribution of CC to the sweet corn ranged between 35 and 75 kg ha −1 . Yield response to N‐fertilizer application was fitted in a cubic model with optimum yield of 22 Mg ha −1 attained with 230 kg N ha −1 . Rye reduced weed biomass by 25% and 36% compared with non‐CC and vetch. In conclusion, the potential CC yield benefits to sweet corn were greatest at lowest supplemental N rates.
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Cover crops increased sweet corn growth at low fertilizer inputs.
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e0“Sweet corn growth, N‐accumulation, and yield were increased when CCs were presented for low‐fertilizer inputs”
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Cover crops increased sweet corn nitrogen accumulation at low fertilizer inputs.
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e0“Sweet corn growth, N‐accumulation, and yield were increased when CCs were presented for low‐fertilizer inputs”
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Cover crops increased sweet corn yield at low fertilizer inputs.
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e0“Sweet corn growth, N‐accumulation, and yield were increased when CCs were presented for low‐fertilizer inputs”
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Cover crops contributed 35 to 75 kg ha−1 nitrogen to sweet corn.
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e0“The N contribution of CC to the sweet corn ranged between 35 and 75 kg ha −1”
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A cubic nitrogen response fit gave optimum sweet corn yield of 22 Mg ha−1 at 230 kg N ha−1.
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e0“Yield response to N‐fertilizer application was fitted in a cubic model with optimum yield of 22 Mg ha −1 attained with 230 kg N ha −1”
e1“the following sweet corn ( Zea mays L.)”
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Rye reduced weed biomass by 25% compared with no cover crop.
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e0“Rye reduced weed biomass by 25% and 36% compared with non‐CC and vetch”
e1“the following sweet corn ( Zea mays L.)”
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Rye reduced weed biomass by 36% compared with vetch.
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e0“Rye reduced weed biomass by 25% and 36% compared with non‐CC and vetch”
e1“the following sweet corn ( Zea mays L.)”
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