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    Soil solarization is a non-chemical environmentally friendly method for controlling pests using solar power to increase the soil temperature to levels...
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  • controlled by continued tillage until the soil seed bank is depleted. Soil solarization involves covering the soil with a layer of clear or black plastic...
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  • Look up solarization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Solarization or solarisation may also refer to: Solarization (photography), a photographic effect...
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    than herbicides is soil solarization. Soil solarization is a thermal (heat) method that utilizes solar-enhanced heating of the soil to kill the root system...
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  • covering the soil with plastic or silage tarps. There are two basic strategies: soil solarization and soil occultation. With soil solarization, the seed...
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  • Soiling is the accumulation of material on light-collecting surfaces in solar power systems. The accumulated material blocks or scatters incident light...
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    hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch or soil solarization, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, or chemical attack with herbicides...
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    pathogens including Verticillium dahliae and Rhizoctonia solani. Soil solarization has been successful in other crop-fungus pathosystems and is evaluated...
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  • Biosolarization (category Soil science)
    alternative technology to soil fumigation used in agriculture. It is closely related to biofumigation and soil solarization, or the use of solar power to control...
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    plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil. Soil consists...
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  • Soil solarization - Soil steam sterilization - Soil structure - Soil survey - Soil test - Soil texture - Soil type - Soil water (retention) - Soils retrogression...
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    chemical control is soil solarization, which is a solar heating of the soil by placing clear polyethylene sheets over moist soil. This kills the majority...
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    (7–8): 501–513. doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2005.01.004. PMID 16140488. "Soil Solarization". Rodale's Organic Life. Retrieved 14 February 2016. "Biomass Production...
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    List of solar energy topics List of solar-powered products Renewable heat Soil solarization Solar easement Solar energy use in rural Africa Solar updraft...
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    combination of soil solarization and organic amendment. Soil solarization is a method of using solar power for controlling pathogens in the soil by mulching...
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    and creating an anaerobic environment that hinders pathogen growth. Soil solarization and certain organic amendments (e.g. composted chicken manure and...
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    Mulching: Applying a thick barrier to block sun may control bindweed. Soil solarization for six to nine weeks in California was found to kill seedlings entirely...
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  • Soiling may refer to: Soiling (solar energy), the accumulation of material on light-collecting surfaces in solar energy systems Fecal incontinence, a lack...
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    Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other...
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  • practices, the container-grown citrus can be treated with steam and soil solarization. Fumigation and nematicides are used to reduced initial population...
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    rates. Soil solarization is another option. Stapleton et al., 2005 eliminate almost 100% of annual weeds in this crop with solarization alone. It completely...
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  • diseases. Management, such as informed crop rotation and soil solarization, can create suppressive soils that naturally suppress pathogens. Weller, DM; Raaijmakers...
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  • (STES) Soil solarization Solar air conditioning Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar azimuth angle Solar balloon Solar bowl Solar box cooker Solar car...
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    leaves are tolerant of flame weeding but the seeds are susceptible to soil solarization. Jacobaea vulgaris Cichorieae, a tribe also in the family Asteraceae...
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  • 2013). "Managing compost stability and amendment to soil to enhance soil heating during soil solarization". Waste Management. 33 (5): 1090–1096. Bibcode:2013WaMan...
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    No-till farming (category Agricultural soil science)
    to conventional tillage. Alternatives include winter cover crops, soil solarization, or burning. The use of herbicides is not strictly necessary, as demonstrated...
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    "Reduction of corky root infections on greenhouse tomato crops by soil solarization in south Italy". Plant Disease. 95 (2): 195–201. Bibcode:2011PlDis...
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  • A solar-pumped laser (or solar-powered laser) is a laser that shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as emitting a beam consisting...
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    improve the sales of olive oil grown in California. Soil solarization is an alternative to soil treatment with methyl bromide. Stapleton et al., 2005...
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  • kill all nematodes in a corm 2–6 inches thick. Soil solarization, or heating and insulating of the soil, can cause nematode death although heat may not...
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