TY - GEN
T1 - Integrated Biological and Cultural Practices Can Reduce Crop Rotation Period of Organic Strawberries
AU - Muramoto, Joji
AU - Gliessman, Stephen R.
AU - Koike, Steven T.
AU - Shennan, Carol
AU - Bull, Carolee T.
AU - Klonsky, Karen
AU - Swezey, Sean
N1 - Funding Information:
The project was partially funded by the North American Strawberry Growers Association, the California Strawberry Commission, the Ruth and Alfred Heller Chair in Agroecology at UCSC, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UCSC, the Halliday Foundation, the Organic Farming Research Foundation, USDA Integrated Organic Program 2004-51300-02232, USDA Special Grant 2004-34424-14408, and the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board Non-Point Source Pollution Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Weather data were kindly provided by the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - A team of researchers conducted a replicated on-farm experiment with the break period between strawberry crops (continuous strawberries with broccoli residue incorporation, one-year break, two-year break, three-year break, and seven-year break) as the main plot and cultivar as the split plot in Moss Landing, Central Coastal California. We hypothesized that the use of non-host rotation crops for Verticillium wilt plus bio-fumigation with broccoli, incorporation of mustard cover crop residues, use of relatively resistant strawberry cultivars, and compost application would suppress disease sufficiently to grow strawberries successfully in rotation every two or three years. Although a positive correlation between break period and marketable fruit yield existed, integrated use of biological and cultural practices allowed one to three-year breaks to have a statistically similar yield as seven-year break for this low Verticillium dahliae pressure field over a five-year period. This article is not subject to U.S. copyright law.
AB - A team of researchers conducted a replicated on-farm experiment with the break period between strawberry crops (continuous strawberries with broccoli residue incorporation, one-year break, two-year break, three-year break, and seven-year break) as the main plot and cultivar as the split plot in Moss Landing, Central Coastal California. We hypothesized that the use of non-host rotation crops for Verticillium wilt plus bio-fumigation with broccoli, incorporation of mustard cover crop residues, use of relatively resistant strawberry cultivars, and compost application would suppress disease sufficiently to grow strawberries successfully in rotation every two or three years. Although a positive correlation between break period and marketable fruit yield existed, integrated use of biological and cultural practices allowed one to three-year breaks to have a statistically similar yield as seven-year break for this low Verticillium dahliae pressure field over a five-year period. This article is not subject to U.S. copyright law.
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U2 - 10.1080/21683565.2013.878429
DO - 10.1080/21683565.2013.878429
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896451092
VL - 38
SP - 603
EP - 631
JO - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
JF - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
SN - 2168-3565
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