Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding enhanced crop earliness.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- Plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- earlinesse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Qualifier
- percentage of the first two harvestse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Plastic mulching and furrow seeding also enhanced earliness as indicated by the percentage of the first two harvests”
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 lint yield 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 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.