scholarly journals The Effect of Beginning Time of Flooding on the Growth and Yield of Rice Cultivated on Paddy Soil with White Clover Living Mulch

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Asagi ◽  
Hideto Ueno
Keyword(s):  
White Clover ◽  
Paddy Soil ◽  
Growth And Yield ◽  
Living Mulch

Establishing white clover (Trifolium repens) as a living mulch: weed control and herbicide tolerance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Nicholas T. Basinger ◽  
Nicholas S. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Weed Control ◽  
White Clover ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Herbicide Tolerance ◽  
Single Application ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Living Mulch ◽  
Herbicide Resistant ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Weed Emergence

Abstract With the increasing focus on herbicide-resistant weeds and the lack of introduction of new modes of action, many producers have turned to annual cover crops as a tool for reducing weed populations. Recent studies have suggested that perennial cover crops such as white clover could be used as living mulch. However, white clover is slow to establish and is susceptible to competition from winter weeds. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine clover tolerance and weed control in established stands of white clover to several herbicides. Studies were conducted in the fall and winter of 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020 at the J. Phil Campbell Research and Education Center in Watkinsville, GA, and the Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center in Midville, GA. POST applications of imazethapyr, bentazon, or flumetsulam at low and high rates, or in combination with 2,4-D and 2,4-DB, were applied when clover reached 2 to 3 trifoliate stage. Six weeks after the initial POST application, a sequential application of bentazon and flumetsulam individually, and combinations of 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, and flumetsulam were applied over designated plots. Clover biomass was similar across all treatments except where it was reduced by sequential applications of 2,4-D + 2,4-DB + flumetsulam in the 2019 to 2020 season indicating that most treatments were safe for use on establishing living mulch clover. A single application of flumetsulam at the low rate or a single application of 2,4-D + 2,4-DB provided the greatest control of all weed species while minimizing clover injury when compared to the non-treated check. These herbicide options allow for control of problematic winter weeds during clover establishment, maximizing clover biomass and limiting canopy gaps that would allow for summer weed emergence.

scholarly journals Managing interference in a sweet corn-white clover living mulch system

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Fischer ◽  
Larry Burrill
Keyword(s):  
Zea Mays ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
White Clover ◽  
Sweet Corn ◽  
Narrow Band ◽  
Living Mulch ◽  
Row Crops ◽  
Row Width ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
Corn Plants

AbstractLiving mulches are vegetative covers that can be grown in association with row crops to reduce soil erosion, improve trafficability and suppress weeds. Interference by the living mulch can reduce yields of an associated crop. The interference between a white clover (Trifolium repens L. ‘New Zealand’) living mulch and sweet corn (Zea mays L. ‘Golden Jubilee’) was studied using an established clover sward that was mowed and then sprayed with 1 to 1.5 kg ai/ha of atrazine. Corn was planted at different densities and planting arrangements into a narrow band tilled in the clover. Interference by clover reduced corn yields by 12 to 39%. However, when corn row width was reduced from 0.76 to 0.38 m, competition among corn plants declined; they became more vigorous and clover- suppress ive and reached even higher yields than conventional (no mulch) corn in 0.76 m rows. Similarly, sweet corn planted at a range of densities into a clover mulch killed by atrazine yielded more in equidistant planting than in wide (0.76 m) rows. A near equidistant corn planting arrangement can be a low-input alternative to achieve season-long clover suppression and thus minimize clover's competition with the intercropped corn.

Growth and yield of zucchini squash (Cucurbita pepoL.) as influenced by a sunn hemp living mulch

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jermaine Hinds ◽  
Koon-Hui Wang ◽  
Cerruti R.R. Hooks
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Yield ◽  
Living Mulch ◽  
Sunn Hemp

scholarly journals Cover Crop Performance between Plastic-mulched Beds: Impacts on Weeds and Soil Resources

HortScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1069-1077
Author(s):  
Alyssa R. Tarrant ◽  
Daniel C. Brainard ◽  
Zachary D. Hayden
Keyword(s):  
White Clover ◽  
Cover Crop ◽  
Weed Suppression ◽  
Italian Ryegrass ◽  
Eragrostis Tef ◽  
Total Biomass ◽  
Plastic Mulch ◽  
Living Mulch ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Weed Biomass

Growing a cover crop living mulch between plastic-mulched beds may reduce soil erosion while providing other agroecosystem services. However, information regarding the relative differences among living mulch species to maximize services and minimize competition for nutrients and water in adjacent plastic-mulched beds is limited. A 2-year experiment in Michigan evaluated nine living mulch species for biomass production, in-season weed suppression, and potential for cash crop competition. Species included three warm season grasses {Italian ryegrass [Lolium perenne L. ssp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot], teff [Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter, and sudangrass [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench ssp. drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) de Wet & Harlan]}; three cool season grasses [barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), rye (Secale cereale L.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)]; and three clover species grown in combination with rye {Dutch white clover (Trifolium repens L.), New Zealand white clover (T. repens L.) and yellow blossom sweet clover [Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam.]}. Although all living mulch treatments significantly reduced in-season weed biomass relative to the weedy control in 2018, weeds were generally a dominant component of total biomass in all living mulch treatments other than teff. Weed biomass was negatively correlated with living mulch biomass, and teff exhibited both the greatest biomass and weed suppression in both years. However, despite spatial and physical separation, all living mulches demonstrated the potential to compete with a cash crop by reducing soil inorganic nitrogen and moisture levels in adjacent plastic mulch–covered beds. Growers interested in integrating living mulches into plasticulture systems must consider desired benefits such as enhanced weed suppression, soil quality, and harvesting conditions alongside potential risks to cash crop yields.

White clover living mulch controlled only by mowing supplies nitrogen to corn

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin Deguchi ◽  
Sunao Uozumi ◽  
Eiko Touno ◽  
Makoto Kaneko ◽  
Keitaro Tawaraya
Keyword(s):  
White Clover ◽  
Living Mulch
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