EVALUATION OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MULCHING AS AN INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN MAIZE UNDER RAINFED CONDITIONS

Evaluation of Organic and Inorganic Mulching as an Integrated Weed Management Strategy in Maize Under Rainfed Conditions

ABSTRACT: Weeds affect crop growth, health and yield by competing for resources, and they serve as refuge for insect pests.Mulches of different materials have been found to control weeds and insect pests.A field study was conducted at the village of Mang, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to explore the effect of various mulch materials on wee

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The energy landscape of magnetic materials

Abstract Magnetic materials can display many solutions to the electronic-structure problem, corresponding to MENOPAUSE different local or global minima of the energy functional.In Hartree-Fock or density-functional theory different single-determinant solutions lead to different magnetizations, ionic oxidation states, hybridizations, and inter-site

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Gender balance and geographical diversity in editorial boards of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Chemical Geology

Background: Members of editorial boards DS Glass Ornament of academic journals are often considered gatekeepers of knowledge and role models for the academic community.Editorial boards should be sufficiently diverse in the background of their members to facilitate publishing manuscripts representing a wide range of research paradigms, methods, and

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