Claim · model-written summary
High tunnels lowered the incidence of defoliation caused by early blight compared with the open field.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- high tunnelse1
- Interactor
- Alternaria solani
Alternaria solanie2pathogen - Outcome
- incidence of defoliatione1
- Direction
- lowerede1
- Comparator
- open fielde1
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Verbatim
t0“Hybrid Tomato”
e1“This study showed no increase in total yields in high tunnels as compared with the open field, but increased marketability and size of tomatoes, and lowered incidence of defoliation resulting from early blight”
e2“early blight ( Alternaria solani ) development”
Title
Mary A. Rogers; Annette L. Wszelaki HortTechnology 2012. doi:10.21273/horttech.22.4.452
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect High tunnels did not increase total tomato yield compared with the open field.
- Intervention effect High tunnels increased tomato marketability and fruit size compared with the open field.
- Intervention effect Tomato planted earlier yielded more marketable fruit than tomato planted on later dates.
- Intervention effect Hybrid tomato varieties yielded more marketable fruit than heirloom varieties.
- Observation Heirloom tomatoes can have equivalent market value to hybrids because of greater consumer demand and premium prices.