Claim · model-written summary
All mulches maintained a higher soil moisture regime than the unmulched control.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassat0 - Treatment
- mulchese4
- Outcome
- soil moisture regimee4
- Direction
- highere4
- Comparator
- unmulched controle0
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Verbatim
t0“strawberry”
e0“five different mulching materials, viz. transparent polyethylene, black polyethylene, pine needles, grass and Eupatorium and an unmulched control”
e4“All mulches were found effective in maintaining higher soil moisture regime”
Title
Rakesh Kumar Gupta; C.L. Acharya Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science 1993
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect All mulched treatments increased the minimum soil temperature at 5 cm depth relative to the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Transparent polyethylene raised the maximum soil temperature.
- Intervention effect Pine needles mulch lowered the maximum soil temperature.
- Intervention effect Grass mulch lowered the maximum soil temperature.
- Intervention effect Black polyethylene did not alter the maximum soil temperature appreciably.
- Intervention effect Total soil-water content up to 60 cm depth was higher under transparent polyethylene than under the other mulched treatments.
- Intervention effect Black polyethylene induced higher root growth than the other mulches and the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Nutrient uptake was higher under black polyethylene than in unmulched plants.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency was 121 per cent higher under black polyethylene than under the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency was 86 per cent higher under transparent polyethylene than under the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency was 80 per cent higher under pine needles mulch than under the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency was 62 per cent higher under grass mulch than under the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Black polyethylene increased strawberry yield by 56 per cent over the unmulched control.
- Intervention effect Fruits from black polyethylene had bigger size, higher TSS and higher sugar than fruits from the remaining mulched treatments.
- Intervention effect Fruits from black polyethylene had lower acidity than fruits from the remaining mulched treatments.