Soil solarization is a non-chemical environmentally friendly method for controlling pests using solar power to increase the soil temperature to levels...

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...

Look up solarization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Solarization or solarisation may also refer to: Solarization (photography), a photographic effect...

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...

Soiling is the accumulation of material on light-collecting surfaces in solar power systems. The accumulated material blocks or scatters incident light...

covering the soil with plastic or silage tarps. There are two basic strategies: soil solarization and soil occultation. With soil solarization, the seed...

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...

hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch or soil solarization, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, or chemical attack with herbicides...

pathogens including Verticillium dahliae and Rhizoctonia solani. Soil solarization has been successful in other crop-fungus pathosystems and is evaluated...

(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...

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...

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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and creating an anaerobic environment that hinders pathogen growth. Soil solarization and certain organic amendments (e.g. composted chicken manure and...

Soiling may refer to: Soiling (solar energy), the accumulation of material on light-collecting surfaces in solar energy systems Fecal incontinence, a lack...

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...

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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to conventional tillage. Alternatives include winter cover crops, soil solarization, or burning. The use of herbicides is not strictly necessary, as demonstrated...

2013). "Managing compost stability and amendment to soil to enhance soil heating during soil solarization". Waste Management. 33 (5): 1090–1096. Bibcode:2013WaMan...

practices, the container-grown citrus can be treated with steam and soil solarization. Fumigation and nematicides are used to reduced initial population...

rates. Soil solarization is another option. Stapleton et al., 2005 eliminate almost 100% of annual weeds in this crop with solarization alone. It completely...

leaves are tolerant of flame weeding but the seeds are susceptible to soil solarization. Jacobaea vulgaris Cichorieae, a tribe also in the family Asteraceae...

combination of soil solarization and organic amendment. Soil solarization is a method of using solar power for controlling pathogens in the soil by mulching...

organic material into the soil. Solar energy is stored as heat energy in thermal mass such as water, stone, masonry, soil and plant biomass. The second...

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...

mosquito control, citrus pest management, plant breeding, noxious weeds, soil solarization, nematode biology, mealybugs, whitefly, Lygus bug, and groundwater...

diseases. Management, such as informed crop rotation and soil solarization, can create suppressive soils that naturally suppress pathogens. Weller, DM; Raaijmakers...

the high effectiveness of humid heat against weeds and its seeds. Soil solarization in some circumstances is very effective at eliminating weeds while...

improve the sales of olive oil grown in California. Soil solarization is an alternative to soil treatment with methyl bromide. Stapleton et al., 2005...