PRODIVA WP 3 Variety mixtures for weed suppression.2015

Summary in the original language of the document

The presentation shows the actions taken within the framework of the project in 2015.
In the first year of the project, field experiments were performed in Poland in the cultivation of barley and oat.
6 barley varieties and 3 oat varieties were taken into account. Varieties were sown in pure stands and in two-component mixtures.
The main goal of the activities was to assess the potential of cereal mixtures to weed suppression. Besides weed biomass production a lot of other aspects were described to present traits considered to be responsible for weed suppression.