Continuous Practice of Conservation Agriculture for 3–5 Years in Intensive Rice-Based Cropping Patterns Reduces Soil Weed Seedbank

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe 1 Running head : Intensive agriculture and soil biodiversity

Seasonal Variation in Weed Seedbank in the Rice Field Soils of Muda Area, Peninsular Malaysia

An investigation was carried out at the Muda rice fields, Peninsular Malaysia during four consecutive seasons of 2004 and 2005 to study the seasonal variation in the weed seedbank. Species composition with their dominance ranking and similarity between the species were recorded. A total of 577 seeds/sample (3337 seeds/m ) in 1/2004, 970 seeds/sample (5659 seeds/m ) in 2/2004, 928 seeds/sample (...

Nitrogen-bonded aromatics in soil organic matter and their implications for a yield decline in intensive rice cropping.

Previous research has shown that long-term intensive cropping of irrigated lowland rice has led to significant grain-yield declines in field trials. The yield decline was attributed to decreased availability of soil nitrogen, which is held mostly in the soil organic matter. By advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy, we have detected significant amounts of amide nitrogen directly bonded to aromat...

Vineyard Weed Seedbank Composition Responds to Glyphosate and Cultivation after Three Years

This research compared effects of the weed control practice, soil cultivation, and the conventional practice, glyphosate application on weed seedbank, in a vineyard system. The experiment was conducted in a commercial wine-grape vineyard in the Napa Valley of northern California from 2003 to 2005. The annual treatments were ‘‘winter–spring glyphosate,’’ ‘‘spring cultivation,’’ ‘‘fall–spring cul...

Distribution patterns of Convolvulaceae in Iran: priorities for conservation

Assessing priorities is the most important action in conservation programs. Rudimentary, mapping of diversity, and distribution patterns have been used to set priorities on diverse scales. The distribution patterns of plant taxa, largely reflect an actual ecological niche. Convolvulaceae s.str exhibits cosmopolitan dispersal of diverse life forms and includes 50–60 genera comprising 1600–1700 s...