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Organic mulch can suppress litchi downy blight through modification of soil microbial community structure and functional potentials [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2022 Background Organic mulch is an important management practice in agricultural production to improve soil quality, control crop pests and diseases and increase the biodiversity of soil microecosystem. However, the information about soil microbial diversity
Dandan Xu +9 more
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Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The use of organic mulch is important for urban green applications. For urban areas in arid and semiarid regions receiving short high-intensive rainfall, rainfall characteristics, and soil slope play an important role for mulch functioning.
Bing Wang +6 more
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Organic mulch sheet formulation as an effort to help plants adapt to climate change
International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture, 2017 Purpose This study aimed to discover the precise material composition and thickness (water hyacinth, rice straw, and banana pseudostem) of organic mulch sheet.
Aniek Iriany +2 more
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Agronomy, 2020 The potential benefits of different types of soil amendments and mulch ground covers on soil chemical and biological properties, crop development and yield, and disease and pest issues in organic vegetable production, as represented by legume (green snap
Robert P. Larkin
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Trichloroethylene (TCE) adsorption using sustainable organic mulch
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2010 Soluble substrates (electron donors) have been commonly injected into chlorinated solvent contaminated plume to stimulate reductive dechlorination. Recently, different types of organic mulches with economic advantages and sustainable benefits have received much attention as new supporting materials that can provide long term sources of electron donors ...
Zongsu Wei, Youngwoo Seo
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INTEGRATED EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF ORGANIC MULCHES AND DIFFERENT MULCH LAYER ON AGROCENOSIS
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum: Hortorum Cultus, 2012 Mulching has become increasingly common during recent decades not only in commercial horticulture. Mulching is especially important in organic farming. Crops are influenced by many factors when mulches are used.
Darija Jodaugienė +4 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2023 The influence of coloured-plastic mulching on physical and biochemical characteristics of tomato fruits were investigated. During the study, tomato crop was grown in an open field under five coloured-plastic mulching, one organic mulch and a no-mulch ...
PANKAJ KUMAR KANNAUJIA +4 more
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Physiological and growth responses of grapevine rootstocks (Vitis spp.) to organic and synthetic mulch application in arid ecology under the effect of climate change [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2022 Agricultural applications in food production have great significance in alleviating the adverse influences of environmental stressors on grapevines. In this context, mulch applications are known as environment-friendly sustainable implementations for ...
Haci ZENGIN, Ali Sabir
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Strawberry Living Mulch in an Organic Vineyard [PDF]
Agronomy, 2021 A living mulch system can provide beneficial biodiversified phytocoenoses and spatial competition against weeds; however, it may also compete for water with the main cultivated crop under Mediterranean climate conditions. Strawberries employed as living mulch in a rain-fed hill vineyard of central Italy were evaluated for two years through a ...
Davide Neri +5 more
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Hydrological characteristics of different organic materials mulches
Scientific Reports, 2023 AbstractThe study aims to find the properties of three organic mulch varieties and their effects on soil moisture and crop growth. Three organic mulches: newspaper, grass, and bran were selected as the research objects, and were analyzed through double-ring infiltration and water loss tests so that water permeability and water-holding capacity of the ...
Pengfei Zhang +5 more
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