Long-term residual effects of the management of cover crop biomass on soil nitrogen and yield of endive (Cichorium endivia L.) and savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda)

Campiglia, Enio; Mancinelli, Roberto; Felice, Vincenzo Di; Radicetti, Emanuele

doi:10.1016/j.still.2014.01.003

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“…Mulching involves maintaining a permanent or semi-permanent protective cover on the soil surface that can be composed of different materials such as vegetative residues, biological geotextiles, gravel and crushed stones (Cerdà, 2001;Gilley et al, 1986;Jordán et al, 2010;Mandal and Sharda, 2013;Smets et al, 2008;Xu et al, 2012;Zhao et al, 2013). The beneficial effects of mulching can be summarized as follows: i) increased water intake and storage (Cook et al, 2006;Mulumba and Lal, 2008), ii) protection of soil against raindrop impact, reducing erosion rates (Blavet et al, 2009;Jordán et al, 2010;Sadeghi et al, 2015a), iii) decreased sediment and nutrient concentrations in runoff (Cerdà, 1998;Gholami et al, 2013;Poesen and Lavee, 1991), iv) decreased runoff generation rates and surface flow velocity by increasing roughness (Cerdà, 2001;Jordán et al, 2010), v) improved infiltration capacity (Jordán et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2014), vi) increased activity of some species of earthworms and crop performance (Wooldridge and Harris, 1991), vii) enhanced soil physical conditions such as soil structure and organic content (De Silva and Cook, 2003;Jordán et al, 2010;Karami et al, 2012), viii) reduced topsoil temperature for more optimum germination and root development (Dahiya et al, 2007;Riddle et al, 1996) and decreased evaporation (Uson and Cook, 1995), and xix) enhanced interactions with nutrients (Campiglia et al, 2014;Movahedi Naeni and Cook, 2000). Among the different types of mulching, straw mulch is considered one of the most effective in achieving the above-mentioned benefits (Blavet et al, 2009;Dahiya et al, 2007).…”

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The immediate effectiveness of barley straw mulch in reducing soil erodibility and surface runoff generation in Mediterranean vineyards

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Jordán

Tarolli

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Science of The Total Environment

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The immediate effectiveness of barley straw mulch in reducing soil erodibility and surface runoff generation in Mediterranean vineyards

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Jordán

Tarolli

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The positive indirect feedback effects on subsequent Avena growing on former Cichorium plots illustrate that preceding-crop legacies can persist for at least one year, which agrees with other studies (Bartelt-Ryser et al 2005;Campiglia et al 2014).…”

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“…Previous field experiments showed that WCC species differ in productivity and N concentration and consequently in their nitrogen supply to following crops (Campiglia et al 2014;Finney, White & Kaye 2016).…”

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“…Legacies can be understood mechanistically through specific feedbackpathways between plants and soil properties such as nutrient cycling, plant mutualists and enemies (Wardle et al 2004a;van der Putten et al 2016). Soil legacies are not restricted to the next generation of plants but can persist for over a year (Bartelt-Ryser et al 2005;Campiglia et al 2014). Indirect PSF between plant species separated in time finds its application in agriculture (Bever, Westover & Antonovics 1997), forming the cornerstone of crop rotation.…”

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A plant’s inheritance : Soil legacy effects of crops and wild relatives in relation to plant functional traits

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During crop domestication plant characteristics have been artificially selected for, with potential unwanted side-effects as some characteristics might have been altered unintentionally. Since productivity in agriculture relies on the interactions between plant and soil, it is a necessity to study the relationship between plant traits, decomposition, microbial community composition and the possible effects on future plant growth.This thesis presents results from several experiments studying how plants influence the soil, through decomposition of plant residues, the soil microbial community assemblage, and its possible consequence for subsequent plant growth. In a crop rotation experiment plant-soil feedback effects have been studied at field scale, with legacy effects of winter cover crops as the primary focus. Influences of plant traits on litter decomposition and microbial community were studied both in a field context and under controlled greenhouse conditions. By comparing the legacy effects of crops with close-relatives from natural grasslands the effects of domestication on litter decomposition and rhizosphere microbial community composition were explored.In the field experiment, it was observed that mixtures of cover crops can perform better than the sum of their parts when the plants in the mixture complemented each other during their growth. Productivity and quality of cover crops was found to promote growth of subsequent main crops, in part through stimulation of soil fungal biomass and feedback effects of decomposing litter. In the greenhouse, growing plants were observed to suppress decomposition of root and shoot litter to varying extent depending on which plant was present and on the quality of the decomposing litter. The results also indicate that domestication has affected plant functional traits in a variety of ways, rather than having predictable effects across a range of crops. Plant functional traits are a useful approach to study legacy effects, as they predict decomposability of plant residues and partially explain the microbial community composition in the rhizosphere. Significance of plant traits as predictors varied with environmental conditions, thus interpretation of the results should be related to its context. This thesis contributes to the understanding of plant-soil interactions, with emphasis on differences and similarities of agricultural and natural ecosystems.

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“…This allows them to rapidly scavenge N from the entire soil profile. Several studies show the success of planting cover crops like oats, hairy vetch, rye, barley and ground wheat after the harvest of vegetables like endive, peas, potatoes and cabbage, in the mitigation of N gaseous and/or leaching losses (e.g., [72,[82][83][84]). However, for some brassica crops like cauliflower or broccoli, harvested as late as November, there is no evidence of the benefits of a cover crop in reducing N losses after production [65,72].…”

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Nitrogen Related Diffuse Pollution from Horticulture Production—Mitigation Practices and Assessment Strategies

Cameira

Mota

2017

Horticulturae

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Abstract:Agriculture is considered one of the main nitrogen (N) pollution sources through the diffuse emissions of ammonia (NH 3 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) to the atmosphere and nitrate (NO 3 − ) to water bodies. The risk is particularly high in horticultural production systems (HPS), where the use of water and fertilizers is intensive and concentrated in space and time, and more specifically, in the case of vegetable crops that have high growth rates, demanding an abundant supply of water and nitrogen forms. Therefore, to comply with the EU environmental policies aimed at reducing diffuse pollution in agriculture, there is the need for mitigation practices or strategies acting at different levels such as the source, the timing and the transport of N. HPS are often well suited for improvement practices, but efficient and specific tools capable of describing and quantifying N losses for these particular production systems are required. The most common mitigation strategies found in the literature relate to crop, irrigation and fertilization management. Nevertheless, only the success of a mitigation strategy under specific conditions will allow its implementation to be increasingly targeted and more cost effective. Assessment methods are therefore required to evaluate and to quantify the impact of mitigation strategies in HPS and to select the most promising ones.

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Long-term residual effects of the management of cover crop biomass on soil nitrogen and yield of endive (Cichorium endivia L.) and savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda)

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

The immediate effectiveness of barley straw mulch in reducing soil erodibility and surface runoff generation in Mediterranean vineyards

The immediate effectiveness of barley straw mulch in reducing soil erodibility and surface runoff generation in Mediterranean vineyards

A plant’s inheritance : Soil legacy effects of crops and wild relatives in relation to plant functional traits

Nitrogen Related Diffuse Pollution from Horticulture Production—Mitigation Practices and Assessment Strategies

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