Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with mulching.

A claim from Establishment and Early Growth and Yield of `Gulfcoast' Southern Highbush Blueberry · 1998

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Plant volume and fruit yield of blueberry were greater with mulching.

Taxon
Southern Highbush Blueberryt0
Treatment
mulchinge0
Outcome
Plant volume and fruit yielde0
Direction
greatere0

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Verbatim

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“Plant volume and fruit yield were greater with mulching, high irrigation, incorporated peatmoss, and level beds”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 421–532
t0

“Southern Highbush Blueberry”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–83

Title

Establishment and Early Growth and Yield of `Gulfcoast' Southern Highbush Blueberry

James M. Spiers HortScience 1998. doi:10.21273/hortsci.33.7.1138

Other claims from this paper (5)

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mulching · yield · Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)Results differ

9 papers: 8 positive, 1 negative or no effect

7 papers in the same direction as this claim · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
    Mulch type had no effect on cumulative yield of Duke.

    Organic Production Systems in Northern Highbush Blueberry: I. Impact of Planting Method, Cultivar, Fertilizer, and Mulch on Yield and Fruit Quality from Planting through Maturity · 2017

    Opposite direction

  2. positive
    Plant vigor and yield were higher under compost mulch treatments, especially in weed-free subplots.

    Organic Mulch Impact on Vegetation Dynamics and Productivity of Highbush Blueberry Under Organic Production · 2009

    Same direction

  3. positive
    Black weed mat over sawdust increased 2018 yield relative to black weed mat alone.

    Individual and Combined Use of Sawdust and Weed Mat Mulch in a New Planting of Northern Highbush Blueberry. III. Yield, Fruit Quality, and Costs · 2021 · compared with black weed mat alone

    Same direction

  4. positive
    Plants with sawdust incorporated but no mulch yielded 7% more per plant than the other incorporation and mulch combinations.

    Long-term Effects of Pre-plant Incorporation with Sawdust, Sawdust Mulch, and Nitrogen Fertilizer Rate on ‘Elliott’ Highbush Blueberry · 2022 · compared with incorporated with mulch or nonincorporated with or without mulch

    Same direction

  5. positive
    Mulching gave the highest fruit yield of southern highbush blueberry.

    ESTABLISHMENT OF `GULFCOAST' SOUTHERN HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY · 1992

    Same direction

  6. positive
    Weed mat placed over existing sawdust or compost-plus-sawdust mulch gave a greater yield increase (averaging 41%) than weed mat alone.

    Long-term Organic Production Systems in Northern Highbush Blueberry: Placing Weed Mat over Existing Organic Mulches and Changing to Nitrogen-only Fertilizer Sources Increased Yield · 2021 · compared with weed mat alone

    Same direction

  7. positive
    A pine bark mulch on the sawdust ridge increased blueberry yield by 25%.

    New approaches to organic blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum L.) production in alkaline field soils · 2009

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Mulched southern highbush blueberry plants had higher yields than non-mulched plants.

    RESPONSE OF SOUTHERN HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY TO SAWDUST MULCH · 1990 · compared with non-mulched

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.