Claim · model-written summary
The low amount of compost gave lower marketable yield than organic fertilizer in IA.
- Taxon
- muskmelon
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- low amount of composte1
- Outcome
- marketable yielde1
- Direction
- lowere1
- Comparator
- the organic fertilizere1
- Setting
- IAe1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“organic muskmelon ( Cucumis melo var. reticulatus ) in Pennsylvania (PA), Iowa (IA), and Kentucky (KY) to manage bacterial wilt ( Erwinia tracheiphila )”
e1“In IA, marketable yield was lower with the low amount of compost compared with the organic fertilizer”
Title
Elsa S. Sánchez; Ermita Hernández; Mark L. Gleason; et al. HortTechnology 2015. doi:10.21273/horttech.25.6.762
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Rowcovers suppressed bacterial wilt incidence in muskmelon in Kentucky compared with no rowcovers.
- Intervention effect Timing of rowcover removal did not affect bacterial wilt incidence in muskmelon.
- Intervention effect Under lower cucumber beetle pressure, rowcovers did not consistently suppress season-long bacterial wilt incidence in muskmelon.
- Intervention effect Removing rowcovers 10 days after an action threshold produced more marketable muskmelon fruit than no delay or no rowcovers in PA and IA.
- Intervention effect The no-rowcover treatment had lower weight per marketable muskmelon fruit.
- Intervention effect The same action threshold without the 10-day delay, followed by insecticide applications, gave the largest number of marketable fruit in KY.
- Intervention effect The same KY action-threshold treatment did not affect marketable fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Compost gave higher marketable yield than organic fertilizer in PA in one year.
- Intervention effect Nutrient treatments caused no yield differences in muskmelon in two years.
- Intervention effect The high amount of compost did not differ in yield from the low amount or organic fertilizer in the year evaluated in IA.
- Intervention effect Nutrient treatments did not affect marketable yield of muskmelon in KY in the year evaluated.
- Recommendation Growers who use compost may choose the lower compost rate to minimize production costs.
- Recommendation Rowcover-based strategies for organic bacterial wilt management need regional optimization.
- Recommendation Fertilization with compost is compatible with the rowcover-based strategies.