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Provedor de dados: | Revista Ciência Agronômica (RCA)
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effects of ground cover from branches of arboreal species on weed growth and maize yield
Autores: | Silva,Paulo Sérgio Lima e; Oliveira,Vianney Reinaldo de; Silva,Paulo Igor Barbosa e; Chicas,Larissa da Silva; Tomaz,Francisco Linco de Souza.
Data: | 2015-12-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Zea mays; Azadirachta indica; Gliricidia sepium; Leucaena leucocephala; Mimosa caesalpiniifolia; Hoeing; Green corn.
Resumo: | ABSTRACTCultivating maize under systems of alley cropping results in improvements to the soil, a reduction in weeds and an increase in yield. Studies using ground cover from tree shoots produce similar results. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects on weed growth and maize yield of ground cover made up of 30 t ha-1 (fresh matter) of branches from the tree species: neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss), gliricidia [Gliricidia sepium(Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp.], leucaena [Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit.] and sabiá (Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Benth.). Two treatment groups (cultivars and weed control) were evaluated. The cultivars AG 1041 and AL Bandeirantes were subjected to the following treatments: no hoeing, double hoeing, and ground a cover of branches of the above species when sowing the maize. A randomised block design was used with split lots (cultivars in the lots) and ten replications. The cultivars did not differ for green ear or grain yield. Double hoeing was more effective than ground cover at reducing the growth of weeds. However, both weeding and ground cover resulted in similar yields for green ears and grain, which were greater than those obtained with the unweeded maize.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902015000400809
Editor: | Universidade Federal do Ceará
Relação: | 10.5935/1806-6690.20150069
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Ciência Agronômica  v.46 n.4 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess