A viruses and silverleaf whitefly can completely devastate cantaloupe crops, causing serious economic losses to growers. The California Melon Research Advisory Board (2003) lists the management and control of aphid-borne viruses and whitefly as a top pest-management research priority. At the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center (KREC), we studied the use of reflective plastic mulch and stra...

the trial randomized complete block design with four replications in summer 1394 on a farm in the village of dotuyeh, kahrizak district located in the share ray to study the effects of different methods of weed control on qualitative and quantitative yield forage corn varieties (sc.704) do was. the experiment consisted of black plastic mulch, on black plastic mulch silver, mung bean living mulc...

The use of mulching in agriculture suppresses the weeds around crop plants, enhances nutrients status soil, controls soil structure and temperature, reduces water evaporation. Excessive low-density polyethylene mulches is contributing to accumulation high amounts plastic wastes, an environmental problem for agricultural ecosystems. Fragments from such wastes can be found soils, resources, organ...

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...

The long-term use of polyethylene mulch (PEM) films can cause plastic film residual pollution that has an adverse effect on soil health and crop quality. To address this issue, poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT), aliphatic–aromatic copolyester, is widely used in the production commercially biodegradable (BDM) films. BDMs alleviate reduce labor cost retrieving residues from field. ef...

Banana (Musa spp.) is a crop with outstanding economic and social expression throughout the world. The objective of this study was to investigate effect different mulches types in growth production postharvest banana ‘BRS Platina’ not irrigated. experiment conducted farm Federal University Lavras (UFLA). Micropropagated plants cultivar BRS were planted field spacing 2.5 × 3.0 m (1333 ·ha-1), wi...