Winter Cover Crop Growth and Weed Suppression on the Central Coast of California1

By E. Brennan, Richard F. Smith. Weed technology, 2005

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Cover Crop Biomass Production Is More Important than Diversity for Weed Suppression (2019, background): “In this regard, a cover crop’s capacity to produce biomass is an important trait of interest, as shown in this study and confirmed by other trials of weed suppression by cover crops (Palmer and Maurer, 1997; Brennan and Smith, 2005; Storkey et al., 2011; Brust et al., 2014; Smith et al., 2014; Finne”
Weed Suppression in Cover Crop Monocultures and Mixtures (2017, unknown): “Grasses (Gramineae) like cereal or oats are highly weed suppressive due to their rapid growth rate and efficient nitrogen uptake (Brainard et al. 2011; Brennan and Smith 2005; Dorn et al. 2015; Finney et al. 2015; Hayden et al. 2012).”
The Challenges of Specialty Crop Weed Control, Future Directions (2008, background): “Effects of cover crops and organic amendments clearly reduce weed populations by suppressing weed emergence (Brennan and Smith 2005; Haramoto and Gallandt 2005) or by enhancing soil microbe populations that prey on weed seedbanks (Fennimore and Jackson 2003).”
Cover Crop for Early Season Weed Suppression in Crops: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis (2018, unknown): “An underlying principle for using cover crops to provide weed suppression is to maximize residue biomass and surface cover, and this is not necessarily guaranteed by cover crops in a mixture (Brennan and Smith, 2005; Hayden et al., 2012; Gawęda et al., 2014; Smith et al., 2014; Nielsen et al., 2015)”