8286: Impact of soil management practices on soil fertility and disease suppressiveness

Tamm, Lucius; Bruns, Christian; Leifert, Carlo; Fuchs, Jacques G.; Thürig, Barbara; Specht, Nicole and Fliessbach, Andreas (2006) Impact of soil management practices on soil fertility and disease suppressiveness. Paper presented at Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.

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Summary

Soil management practices are targeted to provide adequate crop nutrition and to ensure durable soil fertility and to avoid negative environmental impacts. Soil management also aims to reduce pest and disease pressure on crops. Organic farming is believed to increase soil suppressiveness towards soil-borne diseases as well aerial diseases. In this paper we will discuss the potential of soil manage-ment as a tool to improve disease suppressiveness in practice.

Document Language:	English
Subject Areas:	Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection Crop husbandry > Crop combinations and interactions Soil > Soil quality > Soil biology Soil > Soil quality Crop husbandry > Soil tillage Crop husbandry > Composting and manuring
Research affiliation:	International Conferences > 2006: Joint Organic Congress > Theme 4: Crop systems and soils Switzerland > FiBL > Pathology European Union > QualityLowInputFood > Subproject 3: Crop production systems
Total budget (Euro):	0
Orgprints ID Number:	8286
Contact:	Tamm, Dr. Lucius
Deposited On:	09 May 2006
EPrint Type:	Conference paper
Published?:	Published
Type of presentation:	Paper
Peer Review Status:	Not peer-reviewed

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