Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes
Cover crops are grown between cash crop cycles or incorporated with cash crops to improve soil fertility and structure, decrease soil erosion, and suppress weeds, insects, nematodes, and other plant pathogens. Cover crop residues can be incorporated as “green manure” to increase soil fertility for...
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Cover crops are grown between cash crop cycles or incorporated with cash crops to improve soil fertility and structure, decrease soil erosion, and suppress weeds, insects, nematodes, and other plant pathogens. Cover crop residues can be incorporated as “green manure” to increase soil fertility for the next crop. Cover crops also help to enhance many beneficial organisms and may contribute to carbon sequestration. They help curtail the spread of nematodes because nematodes cannot migrate to another field if a cover crop is not a host to them. Instead, some of them may starve, which helps to manage their population. Fallow soil also helps keep nematode populations lower, but it may lead to erosion and other problems. Many different types of cover crops are adapted for cultivation in the southern United States, including cowpea, sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, marigolds, jointvetch, sesame, grasses, rye, wheat, oats, crimson clover, vetch, lupine, and, of late, legumes.
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| spelling | doaj-art-34518c38cb7b439eaa19af8dc2eb62f52025-02-08T05:42:09ZengThe University of Florida George A. Smathers LibrariesEDIS2576-00092023-01-0120226Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot NematodesHarsimran K. GillZane Joseph Grabau0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-0903Robert McSorley1University of FloridaUniversity of Florida Cover crops are grown between cash crop cycles or incorporated with cash crops to improve soil fertility and structure, decrease soil erosion, and suppress weeds, insects, nematodes, and other plant pathogens. Cover crop residues can be incorporated as “green manure” to increase soil fertility for the next crop. Cover crops also help to enhance many beneficial organisms and may contribute to carbon sequestration. They help curtail the spread of nematodes because nematodes cannot migrate to another field if a cover crop is not a host to them. Instead, some of them may starve, which helps to manage their population. Fallow soil also helps keep nematode populations lower, but it may lead to erosion and other problems. Many different types of cover crops are adapted for cultivation in the southern United States, including cowpea, sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, marigolds, jointvetch, sesame, grasses, rye, wheat, oats, crimson clover, vetch, lupine, and, of late, legumes. https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/131306cover cropnematoderoot-knot nematodeMeloidogynemanagementrotation |
| spellingShingle | Harsimran K. Gill Zane Joseph Grabau Robert McSorley Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes EDIS cover crop nematode root-knot nematode Meloidogyne management rotation |
| title | Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes |
| title_full | Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes |
| title_fullStr | Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes |
| title_short | Cover Crops for Managing Root-Knot Nematodes |
| title_sort | cover crops for managing root knot nematodes |
| topic | cover crop nematode root-knot nematode Meloidogyne management rotation |
| url | https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/131306 |
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