The use of mulch in the soil attenuates saline stress corn plants. objective this study was to evaluate effect irrigation with brackish water under different plant mulches on productive performance corn. carried out field conditions, at Piroás experimental farm Universidade da Integração Internacional Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, UNILAB, Redenção, Ceará, Brazil, from August November 2020. design ...

Abstract Living mulches are cover crops grown simultaneously with and in close proximity to cash crops. Advantages of living over dead may include increased weed suppression, reduced erosion leaching, better soil health, greater resource-use efficiency. synthetic enhanced agroecosystem biodiversity suitability for a wider range cropping systems. A major disadvantage this practice is the potenti...

Background As agriculture has intensified, many once-common wildflowers have declined in arable landscapes, which widespread implications for associated ecosystem services. The incorporation of sustainable practices, example, growing living mulches (in-field, non-crop plant ground cover, maintained during the target crop season), can boost biodiversity, but few wildflower species been utilised ...

Mulches bring several benefits to lettuce cultivation.A study on the lettuce ‘Red Rapids’ has been conducted to determine the influence of the different colored plastic mulch on its growth. The experiment consisted of five color treatments as follows; treatment 1- metallic silver (control), treatment 2- red, treatment 3- orange, treatment 4- yellow and treatment 5-green. Results showed that the...