Claim · model-written summary
In 1989-90, solarization combined with metam sodium increased strawberry yield by 29% over nontreated plots, equivalent to MBC fumigation.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassae1 - Treatment
- combined with MSe1
- Outcome
- yielde1
- Direction
- increasee1
- Value
- 29%e1
- Qualifier
- equivalent to that achieved with MBC fumigatione1
- Comparator
- nontreated plotse1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e1“In 1989-90, solarization alone increased strawberry yield 12 % over the yield of nontreated plots; when combined with MS, yield increase was 29%, equivalent to that achieved with MBC fumigation”
Title
Solarization is an Effective Soil Disinfestation Technique for Strawberry Production
T.K. Hartz; J.E. DeVay; C.L. Elmore HortScience 1993. doi:10.21273/hortsci.28.2.104
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Solarization and methyl bromide-chloropicrin (MBC) both reduced Verticillium dahliae inoculum in 1989-90.
- Intervention effect MBC gave superior control of Verticillium dahliae than solarization in 1990-91.
- Intervention effect Solarization significantly controlled annual weeds.
- Intervention effect Solarization was less effective than MBC in controlling annual weeds.
- Intervention effect In 1989-90, solarization alone increased strawberry yield by 12% over nontreated plots.
- Intervention effect The treatments were equally effective in increasing strawberry yields in the 1990-91 test.