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Methods of weed control and their impacts on microbial quality of soil under coffee

Rogério Melloni, Gabriela Belleze, Arthur Manuel Silva Pinto, Luiza Barbosa de Paula Dias, Emilienne Margueritte Silve, Eliane Guimarães Pereira Melloni, [...]

01/Feb/2013

Minas Gerais stands out as the largest coffee-producing state of Brazil. This crop is extremely susceptible to weeds, which can be handled by manual, mechanized and/or chemical methods, which strongly affect production costs and soil quality. In this sense, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different weed control methods in and between coffee rows on the soil microbiota and its processes. For this purpose, soil samples were taken in April 2010 from an Oxisol on […]