Claim · model-written summary
The authors proposed 80% or 60% field capacity deficit irrigation to improve water use efficiency while limiting infection and growth loss.
- Taxon
- tomato and eggplant
Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum melongenae0 - Interactor
- M. javanicaMeloidogyne javanicae0pathogen
- Outcome
- deficit irrigation could be used at a rate of 80% or 60% of FCe0
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Verbatim
e0“deficit irrigation could be used at a rate of 80% or 60% of FC to increase water use efficiency and reduce the level of RKN (M. javanica) infection without greatly reducing the growth performance of tomato and eggplant crops”
Title
Osama Mohawesh; Muwaffaq Karajeh Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2013. doi:10.1080/03650340.2013.871385
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Lower water potential significantly reduced nematode egg hatching.
- Intervention effect Irrigation at 80% caused minor growth reductions.
- Intervention effect Irrigation at 80% significantly reduced nematode infection load.
- Intervention effect Lower irrigation levels reduced nematode infection further.
- Intervention effect Lower irrigation markedly reduced plant fresh weight.