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- Title
Efecto de cultivos de cobertura sobre biomasa, rendimiento y calidad en cultivos de zapallo.
- Authors
Ponce, J. P.; Siliquini, O. A.; Fernández, R.
- Abstract
Squash in Argentina is a vegetable of great economic, social and nutritional importance, it is among the vegetables with the highest levels of consumption and it is consumed in every social stratum and at all ages. The objective of the study was to determine the natural growth rate, commercial yield, and quality of commercial fruits for plants that were developed after cover crops and extended fallow periods. The study was conducted in a soil known as Petrocalcic Paleustol, located in the semi-arid region of the rocky plain in southern La Pampa, Argentina. For two consecutive seasons, rye, rye and vicia, and fallow without cover crops were planted as cover treatments in the same plot. Each cover treatment was implemented using two methods: rolling and herbicide growth stoppage. In this way, six management treatments for squash cultivation were performed. The results after two consecutive seasons showed that the plants developed under cover crop treatments prior to cultivation, along with conventional weed control management, presented the highest values of natural growth rate, achieving excellent coverage of the sowing area. The highest commercial yields were obtained with prior rye cover treated with herbicide growth stoppage, and with rolled rye-vicia cover, for the first and second seasons respectively. The shape of the commercial fruits was not affected by any treatment. All crops with prior coverage had a positive effect on small and medium sizes, which are the most preferred fruit sizes by the domestic market.
- Subjects
DOMESTIC markets; RYE; FRUIT
- Publication
Argentinian Horticulture / Horticultura Argentina, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 109, p102
- ISSN
0327-3431
- Publication type
Article