Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased yam tuber yield relative to unmulched plots.
- Taxon
- white yam
Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundatae1 - Treatment
- mulchinge0
- Outcome
- tuber yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- unmulched yame0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mulching significantly (P< 0.05) increased tuber yield than the unmulched yam”
e1“growth and yield of white yam”
Title
Benson, G. A. S.; Oso, Y. O. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 2024. doi:10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i42346
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Planting and mulching materials significantly affected sprouting time, vine length and yam yield.
- Intervention effect Seed yam performed better in growth and yield than head and bottom setts.
- Intervention effect Grass mulch significantly improved emergence rate.
- Intervention effect Grass mulch gave greater tuber yield than banana pseudostem, leaf mulch and unmulched plots.
- Association Planting material and mulch interactions significantly affected sprouting time, vine length and yield.
- Observation Unmulched control plots performed least among treatments.
- Recommendation The authors suggest processing banana pseudostem and leaves as mulch to improve soil physical quality.