Weed and crop response to colored plastic mulches in strawberry production

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1371-1375

  Johnson, Mark S ^a,b   Fennimore, Steven A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Johnson Farms Gridley   (United States)

^c Dept of Vegetable Crops and Weed Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fragaria xananassa; Photosynthetically active radiation; Plastic mulch; Soil warming; Weed germination; Weed growth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOILS; WEED CONTROL;

CLEAR MULCH; COLORED PLASTIC MULCHES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE LIGHT; SOIL WARMING;

CROPS;

BERRIES; GERMINATION; MULCH; SOIL; WEED CONTROL; WHEAT;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; FRAGARIA XANANASSA;

EID: 22444442561     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.5.1371     Document Type: Article

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