Claim · model-written summary
Ash mulch retained soil temperature most effectively across growth stages and times of day.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- ash mulche3
- Outcome
- retained the soil temperaturee3
- Direction
- most effectivelye3
- Qualifier
- Almost at all stages of growth and at any time of the daye3
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Verbatim
t0“Onion (Allium cepa L.)”
e3“Almost at all stages of growth and at any time of the day, ash mulch retained the soil temperature most effectively and least effectively by sawdust”
Title
Shahidur Rahman; Abdul Halim Khan Plant Production Science 2001. doi:10.1626/pps.4.241
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect All mulches except ash were effective in conserving soil moisture in onion.
- Intervention effect Sawdust mulch retained soil moisture most effectively, followed by rice husk and burnt soil.
- Intervention effect Sawdust mulch retained soil temperature least effectively.
- Intervention effect Mulches significantly influenced dry matter accumulation, leaf area index and plant height in onion.
- Intervention effect Mulches significantly influenced onion root lengths.
- Intervention effect Mulching caused a higher number of onion scapes, though the effect was not significant.
- Intervention effect Mulching had no significant effect on number of scapes, fresh weight or dry weight of onion scapes.
- Intervention effect Ash mulch induced early onion flowering.
- Intervention effect The other mulches significantly delayed onion flowering compared with ash mulch.
- Mechanism The earlier flowering under ash mulch is possibly due to increased soil temperature.
- Recommendation The authors recommend ash as mulch over the other three mulches.