The effect of organic mulches and mycorrhizal substrate on growth, yield and quality of Gold Milenium apples on M.9 rootstock

Sas-Paszt, Lidia; PruskiKris,; Žurawicz, E.; Sumorok, Beata; Derkowska, Edyta; Głuszek, Sławomir

doi:10.4141/cjps2012-239

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“…However, complex topography (steep slopes and fragmented landscape), finite water resource in uplands (<500 mm) and expensive cost of the equipment hinder the extension of micro‐irrigation systems on the Loess Plateau. Alternatively, dry farming techniques such as mulching have been demonstrated in increasing soil water infiltration and reducing surface evaporation (Montenegro et al ., ; Fan et al ., ; Sas‐Paszt et al ., ; Suman & Raina, ). Engineering measures (i.e.…”

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Soil Water Content and Root Patterns in a Rain‐fed Jujube Plantation across Stand Ages on the Loess Plateau of China

Zhao

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Land Degrad Dev

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Planting economic trees is one of the primary parts of the large-scale ecological rehabilitation project (known as 'Grain for Green' project) initiated in 1999 on the Loess Plateau of China. Knowledge of soil water dynamics and fine roots patterns is critical to water management for orchards in this region. Here we investigated the distribution of root-zone soil water variation and fine roots with a range of stand ages (2, 6, 10 and 15 years) in a rain-fed jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) plantation on the Loess Plateau. Soil water in the 0-to 3-m depth was monitored using portable Time Domain Reflectometry, and root samples were taken with a hand auger (Φ = 9 cm). The results showed soil water storage in the 0-to 0·6-m soil layers in all stands increased remarkably following apparent rainfall events. However, there was no clear change in soil water storage below 0·6 m throughout the growing season. Generally, fine root length density increased with the increase of stand age, which were unevenly distributed in the vertical and horizontal directions around the tree trunks in young stands (2 and 6 years), and the fine roots were uniformly distributed radically from the tree trunk in mature stands (10 and 15 years). Additionally, a high-density zone of fine roots was observed in the middle of the inter-row in mature stands, and the specific length of fine roots in young stands was higher than observed in mature stands. The results presented here would be helpful to water management in the rain-fed jujube plantations on Loess Plateau and potentially for other semi-arid orchards.

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Soil Water Content and Root Patterns in a Rain‐fed Jujube Plantation across Stand Ages on the Loess Plateau of China

Zhao

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“…Synthetic mulches can successfully control weeds in orchards. Synthetic mulches include: polyethylene plastic (Mage 1982;Camposeo and Vivaldi 2011), woven polypropylene fabric (Szewczuk and Gudarowska 2006;Markuszewski and Kopytowski 2008;Rozpara et al 2008), nonwoven polyacrylic fabric (Camposeo and Vivaldi 2011) as well as natural mulches like grain and rape straw (Niggli et al 1990;Varga et al 2004;Rowley et al 2011;Sas-Paszt et al 2014), sawdust (Szewczuk and Gudarowska 2004;Czynczyk et al 2011;Sas-Paszt et al 2014), wood chips (Treder et al 2004;Rowley et al 2011), wood bark (Niggli et al 1990;Szewczuk and Gudarowska 2004;Varga et al 2004;Markuszewski and Kopytowski 2008;Rozpara et al 2008;Sas-Paszt et al 2014), manure (Varga et al 2004;Sas-Paszt et al 2014), shredded paper (Rowley et al 2011), compost (Sas-Paszt et al 2014, hay (Stefanelli et al 2009), aggregated lignite (Kwiatkowska 2007), composted poultry litter (Braun and Tworkosky 2004), fruit pomace (Camposeo and Vivaldi 2011), textile (linen, jute, wool) fabric and waste (Rozpara et al 2008;Czynczyk et al 2011), andpeat moss (Sas-Paszt et al 2014). Straw mulch in horticultural crops may originate not only from the grain and rape mentioned above, but also from buckwheat (Kosterna 2014).…”

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Possibilities and limitations of weed management in fruit crops of the temperate climate zone

Lisek¹

2014

Journal of Plant Protection Research

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This manuscript contains information on the species composition of weed communities in orchards in Poland and other countries of the temperate climate zone. The manuscript deals with the influence of weeds on crops and the interaction between the weeds and other living organisms. The main methods of weed regulation are described. Characteristics of the particular crops – fruit trees and small fruits – and solutions that are either objects of study or have already been introduced into practice, are presented. Advantages and disadvantages of different methods of weed control are discussed, such as soil cultivation and tillage, cover crops, mulches, herbicide use, and flame burning.

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“…A lot of field and laboratory studies have shown that organic mulching can increase soil water storage by reducing storm runoff (Moreno-Ramón et al, 2014;Sadeghi et al, 2015), increasing infiltration (Montenegro et al, 2013), and decreasing evaporation (McIntyre et al, 2000;Sas-Paszt et al, 2014). Chakraborty et al (2010) found that organic mulches had better soil water status and improved plant canopy in terms of biomass, root growth, leaf area index, and grain yield, which subsequently resulted in higher water and nitrogen uptake and their use efficiencies.…”

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Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China

Zhao

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Abstract. Conserving more soil water is of great importance to the sustainability of arid and semiarid orchards. Here we integrated fish-scale pits, semicircular mini-catchments for hill slope runoff collection, with mulches to test their effects on soil water storage in a 12-year-old dryland jujube orchard on the Loess Plateau of China, by using soil water measurements from April 2013 to November 2014. This experiment included four treatments: fish-scale pits with branch mulching (FB), fish-scale pits with straw mulching (FS), fish-scale pits without mulching (F), and bare land treatment (CK). Soil water was measured using the TRIME ® -IPH time-domain reflectometer (TDR) tool in 20 cm intervals down to a depth of 180 cm, and was measured once every 2 weeks in the 2013 and 2014 growing seasons. The results showed that fish-scale pits with mulching were better in soil water conservation. Average soil water storage (SWS, for short) of FB at soil layer depths of 0-180 cm increased by 14.23 % (2013) and 21.81 % (2014), respectively, compared to CK, but only increased by 4.82 % (2013) and 5.34 % (2014), respectively, for the F treatment. The degree of soil water compensation, W S , was employed here to represent to what extent soil water was recharged from precipitation at the end of the rainy season relative to that at the beginning of the rainy season. A positive (negative) W S larger (lower) soil water content at the end of rainy season than at the beginning. For the treatment of FB, the values of W S over the entire soil profile were greater than 0; for the treatment of F, negative values of W S were observed in depths of 60-100 cm in both years. However, the bare land treatment showed negative values in depths of 40-180 cm. This indicated that integrating fish-scale pits with mulching could significantly increase soil water storage by increasing infiltration and decreasing evaporation, and it showed greater soil water storage and degree of soil water compensation compared to fish-scale pits alone. Since the branches used for mulching here were trimmed jujube branches, the cost of mulching materials was largely reduced. Therefore, integration of fish-scale pits with branch mulching is recommended in orchards for soil water conservation on the Loess Plateau and potentially for other regions.

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The effect of organic mulches and mycorrhizal substrate on growth, yield and quality of Gold Milenium apples on M.9 rootstock

Cited by 28 publications

References 40 publications

Soil Water Content and Root Patterns in a Rain‐fed Jujube Plantation across Stand Ages on the Loess Plateau of China

Soil Water Content and Root Patterns in a Rain‐fed Jujube Plantation across Stand Ages on the Loess Plateau of China

Possibilities and limitations of weed management in fruit crops of the temperate climate zone

Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China

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