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cover crops on soil mineral nitrogen and on the yield and nitrogen content of maize. Eur J
Agron 31:103–109
124. Altieri MA, Lana MA, Bittencourt HV, Kieling AS, Comin JJ, Lovato PE (2011) Enhancing
crop productivity via weed suppression in organic no-till cropping systems in Santa Catarina,
Brazil. J Sustain Agric 35:855–869
125. Kobayashi H, Miura S, Oyanagi A (2004) Effects of winter barley as a cover crop on the weed
vegetation in a no-tillage soybean. Weed Biol Manage 4:195–205
126. Kobayashi Y, Ito Mand Suwanarak K (2003) Evaluation of smothering effect of four legume
covers on Pennisetum polystachion ssp. setosum (Swartz) Brunken. Weed Biol Manage
3:222–227
127. Iqbal Z, Nasir H, Hiradate S, Fujii Y (2006) Plant growth inhibitory activity of Lycoris radiate
Herb. and the possible involvement of lycorine as an allelochemical. Weed Biol Manage
6:221–227
128. Shiraishi S, Watanabe I, Kuno K, Fujii Y (2002) Allelopathic activity of leaching from dry
leaves and exudate from roots of ground cover plants assayed on agar. Weed Biol Manage
2:133–142
129. Xuan TD, Tawata S, Khanh TD, Chung IM (2005) Decomposition of allelopathic plants in
soil. J Agron Crop Sci 191:162–171
130. Haramoto ER, Gallandt ER (2004) Brassica cover cropping for weed management: a review.
Renew Agric Food Syst 19:187–198
131. Conklin AE, Erich MS, Liebman M, Lambert D, Gallandt ER, Halteman WA (2002) Effects of
red clover (Trifolium pratense) green manure and compost soil amendments on wild mustard
(Brassica kaber) growth and incidence of disease. Plant Soil 238:245–256
132. Cheema ZA, Khaliq A, Saeed S (2004) Weed control in maize (Zea mays L.) through sorghum
allelopathy. J Sustain Agric 23:73–86. https://doi.org/10.1300/J064v23n04_07
133. Teasdale JR, Mohler CL (2000) The quantitative relationship between weed emergence and
the physical properties of mulches. Weed Sci 48:385–392
134. Bilalis D, Sidiras N, Economou G, Vakali C (2003) Effect of different levels of wheat straw
soil surface coverage on weed flora in Vicia faba crops. J Agron Crop Sci 189:233–241
135. Tiquia SM, Lloyd J, Herms DA, Hoitink HAJ, Michel FC Jr (2002) Effects of mulching and
fertilization on soil nutrients, microbial activity and rhizosphere bacterial community structure
determined by analysis of TRFLPs of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes. Appl Soil Ecol 2:31–48
136. Ghosh PK, Dayal D, Bandyopadhyay KK, Mohanty M (2006) Evaluation of straw and
polythene mulch for enhancing productivity of irrigated summer groundnut. Field Crop Res
99:76–86
137. Xuan TD, Shinkichi T, Khanh TD, Min CI (2005) Biological control of weeds and plant
pathogens in paddy rice by exploiting plant allelopathy: an overview. Crop Prot 24:197–206
138. Boz Ö, Doğan MN, Albay F (2003) Olive processing wastes for weed control. Weed Res
43:439–443
139. Khanh TD, Chung IM, Tawata S, Xuan TD (2006) Weed suppression by Passiflora edulis and
its potential allelochemicals. Weed Res 46:296–303
140. Gruber S, Acharya D, Claupein W (2008) Wood chips used for weed control in organic
farming. J Plant Dis Prot 21:395–400
141. Wazir I, Sadiq M, Baloch MS, Awan IU, Khan EA, Shah IH, Nadim MA, Khakwani AA,
Bakhsh I (2011) Application of bio-herbicide alternatives for chemical weed control in rice.
Pak J Weed Sci Res 17:245–252
142. Jamil M, Cheema ZA, Mushtaq MN, Farooq M, Cheema MA (2009) Alternative control of
wild oat and canary grass in wheat fields by allelopathic plant water extracts. Agron Sustain
Dev 29:475–482
143. Cheema ZA, Asim M, Khaliq A (2000) Sorghum allelopathy for weed control in cotton
(Gossypium arboreum L.). Int J Agric Biol 2:37–40
144. Nawaz R, Ahmad R, Cheema ZA, Mehmood T (2001) Effect of row spacing and sorgaab on
sunflower and its weeds. Int J Agric Biol 3:360–362
572
A. Nawaz et al.