Abstract
Field experiment conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu during kharif 2019 to screen out the best among several plant based products viz., live mulching with sunhemp and navathaniyam (multi-varietal crops), dried sunflower stalk @ 4 t ha−1, farmer's market vegetable waste @ 4 t ha−1, Terminalia chebula powder @ 400 kg ha−1, tamarind leaf mulch @ 4 t ha−1, mango leaves @ 4 t ha−1, eucalyptus leaves @ 7 t ha−1, teak leaves @ 4 t ha−1, rice husk @ 2 t ha−1, mustard seed powder @ 160 kg ha−1, neem leaves @ 2.5 t ha−1, Butea frondosa flowers and leaves @ 4 t ha−1, banana leaf mulch @ 7 t ha−1 and water hyacinth @ 4 t ha−1, evaluated against sunflower weeds, showed that the eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchin at 7 t ha−1 and @ 4 t ha−1, respectively were found significant in delaying the emergence of weeds upto 17 DAS and also were best in reducing the weed density, weed dry weight better plant growth and improved soil quality. The eucalyptus leaves were also found best in producing significantly higher dry matter production (630 kg ha−1) followed by mango leaves (628 kg ha−1) due to the allelopathic effect on weeds suppressing its growth and proliferation.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Eucalyptus and mango leaf mulches significantly delayed weed emergence in sunflower up to 17 days after sowing.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchine0
- Interactor
- weedse0weed
- Outcome
- emergence of weedse0
- Direction
- delayinge0
- Value
- 17 DASe0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e0“the eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchin at 7 t ha−1 and @ 4 t ha−1, respectively were found significant in delaying the emergence of weeds upto 17 DAS”
Claim · model-written summary
Eucalyptus and mango leaf mulches were best in reducing weed density and weed dry weight.
- Taxon
- sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
- Treatment
- eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchine0
- Interactor
- weede1weed
- Outcome
- weed density, weed dry weighte1
- Direction
- reducinge1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e0“the eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchin at 7 t ha−1 and @ 4 t ha−1, respectively were found significant in delaying the emergence of weeds upto 17 DAS”
e1“also were best in reducing the weed density, weed dry weight better plant growth and improved soil quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Eucalyptus and mango leaf mulches gave better sunflower plant growth.
- Taxon
- sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
- Treatment
- eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchine0
- Outcome
- plant growthe1
- Direction
- bettere1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e0“the eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchin at 7 t ha−1 and @ 4 t ha−1, respectively were found significant in delaying the emergence of weeds upto 17 DAS”
e1“also were best in reducing the weed density, weed dry weight better plant growth and improved soil quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Eucalyptus and mango leaf mulches improved soil quality.
- Taxon
- sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
- Treatment
- eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchine0
- Outcome
- soil qualitye1
- Direction
- improvede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e0“the eucalyptus and mango leaves mulchin at 7 t ha−1 and @ 4 t ha−1, respectively were found significant in delaying the emergence of weeds upto 17 DAS”
e1“also were best in reducing the weed density, weed dry weight better plant growth and improved soil quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Eucalyptus leaves gave significantly higher dry matter production (630 kg/ha) than mango leaves (628 kg/ha).
- Taxon
- sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
- Treatment
- eucalyptus leavese2
- Outcome
- dry matter productione2
- Direction
- highere2
- Value
- 630 kg ha−1e2
- Qualifier
- 628 kg ha−1e2
- Comparator
- mango leavese2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e2“The eucalyptus leaves were also found best in producing significantly higher dry matter production (630 kg ha−1) followed by mango leaves (628 kg ha−1)”
Claim · model-written summary
The allelopathic effect of eucalyptus and mango leaves on weeds is suggested to suppress weed growth and proliferation.
- Taxon
- sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
- Interactor
- weedse3weed
- Outcome
- growth and proliferatione3
- Qualifier
- allelopathic effect on weedse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“weed management in sunflower”
e3“due to the allelopathic effect on weeds suppressing its growth and proliferation”
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