Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased lint yield in 2003 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- lint yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 25%e0
- Qualifier
- 2003e0
- Comparator
- flat‐seeded cotton without mulchinge0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively”
t0“Cotton”
Title
Hezhong Dong; Weijiang Li; Wei Tang; et al. Agronomy Journal 2008. doi:10.2134/agronj2008.0074
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Furrow seeding reduced root-zone salinity.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching reduced root-zone salinity.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching increased soil temperatures.
- Intervention effect Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased stand establishment in 2003 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Intervention effect Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased stand establishment in 2004 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Intervention effect Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased lint yield in 2004 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching and furrow seeding enhanced crop earliness.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching and furrow seeding reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching and furrow seeding inhibited peroxidation of lipids.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching and furrow seeding improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn).
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching and furrow seeding improved dry matter production.
- Recommendation The authors recommend plastic mulching with furrow-bed seeding for cotton production in saline soils.