Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulches were effective in repressing weed infestation in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Plastic mulchese1
- Interactor
- weede1weed
- Outcome
- weed infestatione1
- Direction
- repressinge1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“tomato”
e1“Plastic mulches were effective in repressing the weed infestation”
Title
M Jayalalitha; M Rajeswari; R Lalitha; et al. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2020. doi:10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i2k.10925
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect The highest weed count (27.3) occurred at 100 per cent ETc irrigation, compared with 60 per cent ETc.
- Intervention effect The lowest weed count (21.4) occurred at 60 per cent ETc irrigation, compared with 100 per cent ETc.
- Intervention effect Among the mulches, the minimum weed count (4.9) was found with white on black plastic mulch.
- Intervention effect The maximum root length (48.2 cm) was observed with 60 per cent ETc without mulch.
- Intervention effect The maximum root spread (41.1 cm) was found at 80 per cent ETc with white on black colour mulch.
- Mechanism The authors attribute greater root spread under colored plastic mulches to weed control and less competition for soil moisture and nutrients.
- Recommendation Plastic mulch can be one of the weed control strategies in tomato production.