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Introduction to Soil Solarization [PDF]
EDIS, 2010 ENY062, a 6-page illustrated fact sheet by Robert McSorley and Harsimran K. Gill, describes this practice of covering soil surface with plastic to harness the sun’s heat to manage soil weeds, nematodes, diseases, and insects in soil.
Robert McSorley, Harsimran K. Gill
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Soil Solarization and Sustainable Agriculture
, 2009 Pesticide treatments provide an effective control of soilborne pests in vegetable and fruit crops, but their toxicity to animals and people and residual toxicity in plants and soil, and high cost make their use hazardous and economically inconvenient.
D'ADDABBO T. +3 more
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SOIL TEMPERATURE MODIFICATIONS CAUSED BY SOLARIZATION IN NURSERIES
Ciência Rural, 1993 Solarization effects on soil temperature were evaluated during the autumn. The increase in soil temperature caused by the use of transparent polyethylene (PE) low tunnels over solarized nurseries, in subtropical central region of the Rio Grande do Sul ...
Nereu Augusto Streck +2 more
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Soil Solarization an Effective Method for Disinfection of Soil: A Review
Asian Research Journal of AgriculturePlastic sheets are placed over wet soil during times of high ambient temperature to manage soil-borne pests without using pesticides. The top layers are heated by the plastic sheets ability to trap solar radiation in the soil. During the sweltering summer months, Solarization may raise the temperature of the soil to such an extent that it kills ...
Ravindra Jadhav +2 more
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SOIL TEMPERATURES AFFECTED BY DIFFERENT SOLARIZATION PRACTICES
Acta Horticulturae, 2006 The recognition of using solar energy for soil solarization in protected agriculture is gaining ground as the ecological awareness of the public has increased. The primary main effect of solarization is to increase soil temperature. The determination of soil thermal properties before solarization can provide a key criterion for making a decision in ...
Sesveren S., Topcu S., Kirda C.
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Soil solarization for weed control in carrot [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2000 Soil solarization is a technique used for weed and plant disease control in regions with high levels of solar radiation. The effect of solarization (0, 3, 6, and 9 weeks) upon weed populations, carrot (Daucus carota L. cv.
MARENCO RICARDO ANTONIO +1 more
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Soil Solarization in Pacific Northwest Tree Seedling Nurseries: Effects on Soilborne Plant Pathogens, Soil Nutrients and the Soil Microbiome [PDF]
Nursery and greenhouse products are economically important agricultural commodities for Oregon and Washington. Nursery crops including tree seedlings can be damaged or killed by soilborne plant pathogens, which can be challenging to manage because of ...
Weidman, Clara S.
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Soil Solarization for Weed Management in Tree Seedling Nurseries in the Pacific Northwest [PDF]
Soil solarization is a pre-planting practice to reduce weed pressure by trapping solar energy using a transparent polyethylene film to heat soil. Soil solarization has been successfully used in regions with high solar radiation.
Wada, Nami
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Soiling and degradation analysis of solar mirrors [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2016 The degradation and the soiling of the mirrors are dependent of the solar field and the mirrors technologies, the local climate, the meteorological events, the O&M tasks and the human activities around the site. In the frame of the European project SFERA II, the SODAM project has been the opportunity to compare the soiling and the degradation ...
Delord, Christine +5 more
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Improving Transplants Production of Tomato & Lettuce Using Soil Solarization [PDF]
Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development, 2011 Field experiments on tomato and lettuce seed-bed solarization wereconducted at Deir-Ezzor in Syria. The well prepared and pre irrigated seed-bedplots were covered with 40 micron thick clear polyethylene mulches for aduration of 6 weeks prior to tomato ...
Saleh Al-Obeid
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