Influence of cover crops and tillage systems on nematode populations in a maize-cover crop intercrop

Autor:	P. S. Chindo, H.M. Lawal, Mustafa O. Jibrin
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Conventional tillage biology Centrosema Population biology.organism_classification Tillage No-till farming Mulch-till Agronomy Xiphinema Cover crop education Agronomy and Crop Science
Zdroj:	Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection. 47:703-710
ISSN:	1477-2906 0323-5408
Popis:	Cropping systems affect the distribution/diversity of soil microorganisms, including soilborne pathogens. In order to examine the effect of the cropping systems on soil nematodes, maize (Zea mays) was intercropped with different cover crops [Glycine max (GM), Macrotyloma uniflorum (MU), Centrosema pascuorum (CP), Cucurbita maxima (CM) and a control experiment with no cover crop (NC)] under different tillage systems [no till, reduced tillage and conventional tillage] to evaluate the effect of the various treatments on nematode population. The treatments were arranged in a split-plot design with three replications each. Tillage was the main treatment while cover crops were applied to subtreatment. In all, nematodes belonging to twenty-two (22) plant parasitic nematode genera were identified. While most of the genera were identified on all the treatments, the interaction of tillage systems and cover crops had significant effect on the population of Xiphinema and Trichodorus only, showing the nullifying effec...
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