Use of solaria to predict weed density and floristic composition in no-till cropping systems

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira

Pablo Antonio Calviño²  Juan José Eyherabide¹ 

[1] ,Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola Consorcio Regional de Experimentación Agrícola de Tandil Tandil,Argentina

关键词: solarization;    weed seedling emergence;    solarização;    emergência de ervas daninhas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-204X2006000300006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this work was to evaluate the efficiency of a new method, developed for predicting density and floristic composition of weed communities in field crops. Based on the use of solaria (100 mm transparent plastic tarps lying on the soil) to stimulate weed seedlings emergence, the method was tested in Tandil, Argentina, from 1998 to 2001. The system involved corn and sunflower in commercial no-till system. Major weeds in the experiments included Digitaria sanguinalis, Setaria verticillata and S. viridis, which accounted for 98% of the weed community in the three years of experiments since 1998. Large numbers of Tagetes minuta, Chenopodium album and Ammi majus were present in 2001. Comparison of weed communities under solaria with communities in field crops indicated that the method is useful for predicting the presence and density of some major weed species, at both high and low densities, of individuals in areas of 10 ha using only five solaria. Low density of weed species makes the method particularly useful to help deciding the time for herbicide applications to avoid soil contamination.

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