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Effects of different multiple cropping systems on paddy field weed community under long term paddy-upland rotation.

YANG Bin-juan, HUANG Guo-qin, XU Ning, WANG Shu-bin   

  1. (Research Center on Ecological Science, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China)
  • Online:2013-09-18 Published:2013-09-18

Abstract: Based on a long term field experiment, this paper studied the effects of different multiple cropping systems on the weed community composition and species diversity under paddy-upland rotation. The multiple cropping rotation systems could significantly decrease weed density and inhibited weed growth. Among the rotation systems, the milk vetch-early rice-late maize → milk vetch-early maize intercropped with early soybean-late rice (CCSR) had the lowest weed species dominance, which inhibited the dominant weeds and decreased their damage. Under different multiple cropping systems, the main weed community was all composed of Monochoia vaginalis, Echinochloa crusgalli, and Sagittaria pygmae, and the similarity of weed community was higher, with the highest similarity appeared in milk vetch-early rice-late maize intercropped with late soybean → milk vetch-early maize-late rice (CSCR) and in CCSR. In sum, the multiple cropping rotations in paddy field could inhibit weeds to a certain extent, but attentions should be paid to the damage of some less important weeds.