Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) ‘Spunta’ plants were grown with the root zone covered by different types of polyethylene plastic mulches. The plastic mulches used were transparent, white, co-extruded black and white, and black. As a control, plants were grown without plastic mulch. The parameters analyzed were soil temperature, root concentration of K and Ca, and enzymatic activities of ATPase an...

Expanding agricultural land by using sloping dry can be detrimental to the environment due soil erosion and degradation. However, cover crops one of technologies applied reduce these risks. Arachis pintoi is that used as bio mulch on land. The study aimed evaluate effect A. nutrient contents maize plant growth at different slopes. A nested randomized block design was in study. Two levels main f...

The effects of different-colored polyethylene mulches on the quantity and spectra of reflected light, earliness of fruit set, fruit yield and quality, and root-knot disease were studied in field-grown, staked tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). White mulch reflected more photosynthetic light and a lower far-red-to-red ratio than red mulch, whereas black mulch reflected less than 5 percent of any ...

abstract in order to study of chemical and mechanical weed management methods and their integration in potato (solanum tuberosum), a field experiment was done in 2008 at ferdowsi university of mashhad research field. experimental design was completely randomize block design with 6 treatments and 3 replications. treatment included broadcast herbicide application (standard treatment), between row...

in order to investigate the effect of chemical herbicides on control of broad leaf weeds of common bean, an experiment was conducted in 2007 at yasouj with 12 treatments in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications. treatments consisted of preplant application of trifluralin herbicide at 960 g ai ha-1; postemergence application of bentazon at 1200 g ai ha-1; imaztapir at 50, 75 and...

The influence of coloured-plastic mulching on physical and biochemical characteristics tomato fruits were investigated. During the study, crop was grown in an open field under five mulching, one organic mulch a no-mulch treatment. Harvested analysed for various physico-chemical post-harvest quality parameters. Results evidenced that sphericity tomatoe non-significantly (P<0.05) affected by h...

this experiment was conducted to study the effect of plastic mulch on the growth and some physiological characteristics of two strawberry cultivars (paros and queen elisa) under drought stress. a factorial experiment was performed based on randomized complete block design with four treatments, including mulch, without mulch, normal irrigation (control) and deficit irrigation (-10 bar) with thre...

for investigating of o. aegyptiaca control in tomato with sulfosulfuron and glyphosate and evaluating the efficacy, dose and time of application, some studies were conducted in 2011 at aarhus university of denmark. at first, the efficacy of sulfosulfuron (0.029, 0.147, 0.735, 3.676 and 18.378 mg per lit) and glyphosate (0.023, 0.117, 0.587, 2.935 and 14.676 µl per lit) on egyptian broomrape see...

using mulch to decrease and optimize water use, increase yield and fruit quality is known as a practical method. for this purpose, a split-factorial experiment based on complete block design with three replications on two melon cultivars was conducted in torbat-e-jam, iran. interval irrigation treatments in three levels (six, eight and 10 days) were considered as main plot and mulch (rice straw...