Claim · model-written summary
Wiping reduced weed numbers more effectively than mowing in the following year.
- Taxon
- dogbanee1
- Treatment
- Wipinge0
- Interactor
- bracken fern
Pteridium aquilinume1other - Outcome
- weed numberse0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Qualifier
- in the following yeare0
- Comparator
- mowinge0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Schema note from the model: Weed-number result is pooled across dogbane and bracken fern; separate species results are not reported.
Verbatim
e0“Wiping was more effective than mowing for reducing weed numbers in the following year.”
e1“dogbane or bracken fern weed cover”
Title
916 PB 188 WEED THRESHOLDS BY MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL CONTROLS IN WILD BLUEBERRIES
David E. Yarborough; Timothy M. Hess HortScience 1994. doi:10.21273/hortsci.29.5.565d
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Wiping reduced blueberry yields compared with mowing at higher weed densities.
- Intervention effect Mowing increased blueberry yields more effectively than wiping up to 50% weed cover.
- Intervention effect Mowing increased blueberry yields more effectively than no treatment up to 50% weed cover.
- Observation Average blueberry yields under mowing tended to decline above 50% weed cover but remained greater than without treatment.