Influence of Sunn Hemp Biomass Incorporation on Organic Strawberry Production
Horticulturae, 2023 Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), a warm season leguminous cover crop, is commonly used in rotation with organic strawberry production in Florida’s subtropical environment.
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Quality properties of sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) silages
Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2021 Maize is an ideal forage crop for ensilage because of its high levels of fermentable carbohydrates, although it is low in protein. Sunn hemp is a legume with a high crude protein content with potential to be used in combination with maize to provide a ...
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Application of bokashi and sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) to improve inorganic fertilizer efficiency on maize (Zea mays L.) [PDF]
Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2015 A field experiment was conducted lo learn about the effect of Bokashi and Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) on maize production and inorganic fertilizer use efficiency on maize.
A.I. Yuliana, T. Sumarni, T. Islami
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Flowering of the Cover Crop Sunn Hemp, Crotalaria juncea L. [PDF]
HortScience, 2017 Sunn hemp, Crotalaria juncea L., is a warm-season legume that is planted before or after a vegetable cash crop to add nutrients and organic matter to the soil, for weed-growth prevention, and to suppress nematode populations.
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Planting Date and Seeding Rate Effects on Sunn Hemp Biomass and Nitrogen Production for a Winter Cover Crop [PDF]
International Journal of Agronomy, 2011 Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) is a tropical legume that produces plant biomass and nitrogen (N) quickly. Our objectives were to assess the growth of a new sunn hemp cultivar breed to produce seed in a temperate climate and determine the residual N ...
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Accelerated aging as vigor test for sunn hemp seeds [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2017 ABSTRACT: This study aimed to determine the most appropriate method to assess the sunn hemp ( Crotalaria juncea L.) seed vigor in the accelerated aging test. Five seed lots from harvest 2007/2008 were evaluated for germination, vigor and seedling emergence in the field.
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Questions and Answers for Using Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) as a Green Manure Cover Crop
EDIS, 2020 This document synthesizes information about the warm season cover crop sunn hemp. The question-and-answer format addresses frequently asked questions for growers with answers that summarize the growing body of sunn hemp research.
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Sample Size for Morphological Traits of Sunn Hemp
Journal of Agricultural Science, 2017 Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) is an annual leguminous plant used for crop rotation, biomass formation, biological nitrogen fixation, and nematode control. To this end, sampling is an important tool owing to its advantages, such as low cost and fast data acquisition.
Denison Esequiel Schabarum +6 more
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Controlled deterioration test for evaluation of sunn hemp seed vigor [PDF]
Journal of Seed Science, 2015 The controlled deterioration test is efficient for seed vigor evaluation of several species. However, the procedures conditions are incipient, especially in respect to tropical forages such as sunn hemp, which still does not have a standardized procedure. The objective of this research was to adjust the procedures for a controlled deterioration test in
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Thermodynamic properties for different equilibrium moisture content in sunn hemp seeds
Journal of Seed Science: Losses of agroindustry are generally wet products that must be dried to posterior use and storage. In order to optimize drying processes, the study of isotherms and thermodynamic properties become essential to understand the water sorption mechanisms ...
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