Claim · model-written summary
Trickle irrigation did not affect the number of larvae or the proportion of heavily defoliated potato plants.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume1 - Treatment
- trickle irrigatione4
- Outcome
- number of larvae or the proportion of heavily defoliated plantse4
- Direction
- did not affecte4
- Comparator
- the controle4
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Verbatim
e1“Straw mulch reduced the number of Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), larvae on potato during the first generation”
e4“Leaf mulch and trickle irrigation did not affect number of larvae or the proportion of heavily defoliated plants compared to the control”
Title
Kimberly A. Stoner Journal of Entomological Science 1993. doi:10.18474/0749-8004-28.4.393
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Straw mulch reduced the number of Colorado potato beetle larvae on potato during the first generation.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch reduced the proportion of potato stems more than 50% defoliated.
- Intervention effect Leaf mulch did not affect the number of larvae or the proportion of heavily defoliated potato plants.
- Intervention effect No treatment significantly affected the number of adults per potato stem until the end of the first generation.
- Intervention effect No treatment affected the number of egg masses on potato.
- Mechanism Straw mulch likely affects mortality or development of beetle eggs and larvae.
- Intervention effect Both types of mulch increased potato yield relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Trickle irrigation increased potato yield relative to the control.