Abstract
ABSTRACT Living or cover crop mulches may reduce pesticide and fertilizer use while protecting the soil. Three systems in cabbage [hairy vetch cover crop mulch (HV), cereal rye cover crop mulch (CR), and a perennial ryegrass living mulch (PR)] or two systems in snap beans (CR and PR) were compared to conventional fall-tillage with trifluralin (CT). The CR with fall-planted rye was best for suppressing weeds. None of the mulches adequately suppressed cabbage insect pests. In 1992, hairy vetch regrowth reduced cabbage growth and yield. Snap bean yields were reduced in the CR system. The mulches are more management intensive and variable than the CT. CR was the most promising mulch, but further research is needed to develop approaches that prevent snap bean yield loss.
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Claim · model-written summary
Cereal rye mulch best suppressed weeds.
- Taxon
- Cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. capitatat0 - Treatment
- cereal rye cover crop mulch (CR)e1
- Interactor
- weedse0weed
- Outcome
- weedse0
- Direction
- suppressinge0
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e0“CR with fall-planted rye was best for suppressing weeds”
e1“cereal rye cover crop mulch (CR)”
t0“Cabbage”
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None of the mulches adequately suppressed cabbage insect pests.
- Taxon
- cabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae0
- Treatment
- mulchese0
- Interactor
- insect pestse0pest
- Outcome
- cabbage insect pestse0
- Direction
- suppressede0
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e0“None of the mulches adequately suppressed cabbage insect pests”
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Hairy vetch regrowth reduced cabbage growth and yield in 1992.
- Taxon
- cabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae0
- Treatment
- hairy vetch regrowthe0
- Outcome
- growth and yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- In 1992e0
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e0“In 1992, hairy vetch regrowth reduced cabbage growth and yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Cereal rye mulch reduced snap bean yields.
Not reportedComparator
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e0“Snap bean yields were reduced in the CR system”
e1“cereal rye cover crop mulch (CR)”
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Mulches required more management and varied more than conventional tillage.
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e0“mulches are more management intensive and variable than the CT”
e1“conventional fall-tillage with trifluralin (CT)”
t0“Snap Beans and Cabbage”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors considered cereal rye the most promising mulch but called for preventing snap bean yield loss.
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e0“CR was the most promising mulch, but further research is needed to develop approaches that prevent snap bean yield loss”
e1“cereal rye cover crop mulch (CR)”
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