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Differentiated Weed-Suppressive Ability of Modern and Old Durum Wheat Cultivars after Long-Term Cultivation under Semi-Arid Climate.
Scavo, Aurelio; Restuccia, Alessia; Bannò, Mario; Mauromicale, Giovanni.
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  • Scavo A; Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
  • Restuccia A; Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
  • Bannò M; Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
  • Mauromicale G; Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Plants (Basel) ; 11(23)2022 Dec 04.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36501407
Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum) is one of the most important grain crops cultivated across the Mediterranean Basin, where a strong return to local landraces cultivation is occurring to meet the market demand for high-quality food and low-input cropping systems. A characterisation of the long-term effect (10 years) of durum wheat landraces and modern cultivars on the potential and real weed flora is still lacking. Hence, a multilocation trial over 10 farms in Central-Eastern Sicily was carried out to investigate the repeated cultivation of several old landraces (OLD) and modern cultivars (MOD) on the abundance and diversity of weed flora. Overall, OLD was associated with a 47% reduction of the soil seedbank size and to -64% of the aboveground weed biomass compared to MOD. In addition, diversity indices pointed out a high similarity between MOD and OLD farm groups for the soil seedbank, while a lower diversity was found in OLD for aboveground weed communities. From the principal component analysis emerged that the species compositions of MOD and OLD were quite separated for both soil seedbank and real flora, with the latter showing few specific associations with major weeds. These findings demonstrated the indirect effect of durum wheat landraces in sustainably reducing weed pressure without the adoption of chemical weed control.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Plants (Basel) Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia Pais de publicación: Suiza

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Plants (Basel) Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia Pais de publicación: Suiza