Claim · model-written summary
Fungicide treatments did not significantly increase tomato yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- fungicide treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Yield of tomatoes at harveste0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Yield of tomatoes at harvest was not significantly increased by the fungicide treatments”
Title
Control of Phytophthora root rot in processing tomatoes by metalaxyl and fosetyl-Al
SP Flett; WJ Ashcroft; PH Jerie; et al. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 1991. doi:10.1071/ea9910279
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Greenhouse metalaxyl soil drench significantly reduced root rot severity.
- Intervention effect Greenhouse fosetyl-A1 foliar spray significantly reduced root rot severity.
- Intervention effect Field metalaxyl applications reduced disease severity.
- Intervention effect Metalaxyl at sowing significantly reduced root rot severity for the first 12 weeks but failed season-long protection.
- Recommendation The authors do not recommend field metalaxyl granules for Phytophthora root rot control.