Tillage effects on weed communities in an organic winter wheat-sunflower-spelt cropping sequence

Weed Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 413-421

  Sans, F X ^a,b   Berner, A ^b   Armengot, L ^a   Mader P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodynamic preparations; Crop grain yield; Diversity; Fertilisation; Reduced tillage; Weeds

Indexed keywords

CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; DOMINANCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HERB; MANURE; MONOCOTYLEDON; ORGANIC FARMING; SLURRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TILLAGE; VEGETATION COVER; WEED; WEED CONTROL; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; HELIANTHUS; LILIOPSIDA; STELLARIA; STELLARIA MEDIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. SPELTA;

EID: 79960042781     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2011.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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