Conservation tillage systems that reduce soil erosion and maintain or increase soil carbon offer long-term benefits for producers in the inland Pacific Northwestern United States but could result in reduced grain yields due to increased pressure from weeds, disease, and insect pests. Our objective was to compare runoff, soil erosion, and crop yields from a conventional tillage, wheat-fallow two...

Under dryland systems of the Mediterranean basin, water management is widely recognised critical for improving grain yield. It has been proposed that nitrogen (N) fertilisation may be a tool to increase yield by increasing use efficiency. We tested in multilocation-multiyear study four different areas Basin if durum wheat and barley respond positively N under rainfed cultivation. The involved 1...

In order to determine the best time use and adequate dose of four herbicides control weeds in dryland chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) fields, we performed present experiment 4 x 5 m plots. Fourteen treatments were carried out that from 1 9 included trifluralin. Treatments 1, 2, 3 with increasing doses trifluralin (480, 720, 960 g ai ha-1) applied 30 days before planting. 4, 5, 6 15 7, 8 consisted...

Biosolids land application for beneficial reuse applies varying amounts of trace metals to soils. Measuring plant-available or total soil metals is typically performed to ensure environmental protection, but these techniques do not quantify which soil phases play important roles in terms of metal release or attenuation. This study assessed the distribution of Cd, Cr, Cu, Mo, Ni, Pb, and Zn asso...

line to/cal/3/7c//bb/cno/5/cal//cno/sn64/4/cno//bad/dar/3/kl/6/sabalan was received from icarda under international winter wheat improvement in 1999-2000 cropping season. based on its favorable agronomic characteristics, it was selected for further evaluations in advanced and elite yield trials in main research stations of dryland agricultural research institute (dari) and on farm yield trials ...