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No-Tillage and High-Density Planting for Tahiti Acid Lime Grafted Onto Flying Dragon Trifoliate Orange
- Source :
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 4 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media SA, 2020.
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Abstract
- The management of soil cover plants (intercropping) in orchards can contribute to increase productivity of citrus trees. Thus, the present research aimed to evaluate different planting systems for Tahiti acid lime grafted onto Flying Dragon trifoliate orange, a dwarfing rootstock, at high planting density (1,157 trees ha-1). The study was set up in four tillage systems, using Urochloa ruziziensis as an intercrop species in the orchard, and conducted for five years: no-tillage (NT), no-tillage and no-herbicide (NT-NH), minimum tillage (MT) and conventional tillage (CT; without intercropping). Dry matter (DM) production of biomass in the row and interrow of the orchard was evaluated yearly, as well as weed density, soil physical and chemical characteristics, plant water and nutritional status, and fruit yield of trees. Greater deposition of DM of biomass was observed in the row of citrus planting for treatments NT and NT-NH compared to CT and MT treatments, which led to reduced undesirable weed populations. The NT treatment also provided increases of 79% in potassium (K) nutrient concentrations in the leaves of trees and 60% in exchangeable K in the soil surface layer, in the first two years evaluated. The maintenance of the Urochloa ruziensis mulch in the NT system also provided higher soil volumetric moisture content and consequently lower soil resistance penetration and water stress on trees, evidenced by the predawn plant leaf water potential (
- Subjects :
- lcsh:TX341-641
Citrus latifolia
Horticulture
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Minimum tillage
ecological mower
glyphosate management
Urochloa
Cover crop
Global and Planetary Change
Conventional tillage
lcsh:TP368-456
Ecology
biology
Intercropping
Urochloa ruziziensis
biology.organism_classification
Soil quality
Tillage
lcsh:Food processing and manufacture
Agronomy
soil protection
Orchard
intercropping
lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Agronomy and Crop Science
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2571581X
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....001c48c1fe2cd402f2a3eb3350e9a907