Abstract
Cover cropping and biosolarization are agricultural practices capable of controlling soil pests, enhancing soil health, and improving crop yields. Biosolarization utilizes solar heating and biochemical pesticide production from organic matter amendments to control agricultural pests. This study evaluates the effects of using cover crop residues from Brassica juncea monocultures and mixtures with Vicia villosa as biosolarization amendments on subsequent eggplant production, soil nitrogen, and soil pests, including weeds and fungal crown rot. These treatments were compared to non-biosolarized soil amended with the same cover crop monocultures and mixtures, non-amended soil treated with solarization, and non-amended, untreated soil controls. Results indicate the cover crop amendments improve eggplant fruit yield by 154 %, while decreasing fungal crown rot disease relative to untreated controls (P < 0.05). Additionally, employing biosolarization with these amendments reduced subsequent weed mass relative to cover cropped, solarized, and untreated controls (P < 0.05). Biosolarization also increased soil nitrate concentrations compared to cover crop-amended soil without biosolarization (P < 0.05). These findings exhibit the additive potential of cover cropping and biosolarization practices to be implemented in agriculture to control soil pests without chemical fumigants, while enhancing soil health and crop productivity.
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Cover crop amendments improved eggplant fruit yield by 154% relative to untreated controls.
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- eggplant
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- Value
- 154 %e0
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e0“cover crop amendments improve eggplant fruit yield by 154 %, while decreasing fungal crown rot disease relative to untreated controls (P < 0.05)”
Claim · model-written summary
Cover crop amendments decreased fungal crown rot relative to untreated controls.
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- eggplantSolanum melongenae0
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- cover crop amendmentse0
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- fungal crown rote0pathogen
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- fungal crown rot diseasee0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
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- untreated controlse0
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e0“cover crop amendments improve eggplant fruit yield by 154 %, while decreasing fungal crown rot disease relative to untreated controls (P < 0.05)”
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Biosolarization with the amendments reduced subsequent weed mass relative to cover cropped, solarized and untreated controls.
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- eggplantSolanum melongenat0
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- biosolarization with these amendmentse0
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- weede0weed
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- weed masse0
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- reducede0
- Comparator
- cover cropped, solarized, and untreated controlse0
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e0“employing biosolarization with these amendments reduced subsequent weed mass relative to cover cropped, solarized, and untreated controls (P < 0.05)”
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Biosolarization increased soil nitrate versus cover crop-amended soil without biosolarization.
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- eggplantSolanum melongenat0
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- Biosolarizatione0
- Outcome
- soil nitrate concentrationse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- cover crop-amended soil without biosolarizatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Biosolarization also increased soil nitrate concentrations compared to cover crop-amended soil without biosolarization (P < 0.05)”
t0“eggplant”
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