Claim · model-written summary
Onion seedlings transplanted to compost-treated plots established more vigorously than seedlings in control plots.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepae0 - Material
- Allium cepa cv. Spanish Sweet Utahe0
- Organ / stage
- Seedlingse1
- Treatment
- composte1
- Outcome
- establishmente1
- Direction
- more vigorouse1
- Comparator
- control plotse1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Onion (Allium cepa cv. Spanish Sweet Utah), lettuce (Lactuca sativa cv. Black Seeded Simpson), snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus cv. Sonnet Yellow), and turfgrass (Festuca arundinacea cv. Marathon)”
e1“Seedlings of onion, snapdragon and lettuce transplanted to compost treated plots displayed more vigorous establishment than those in the control plots”
Title
Sewage Sludge Compost's Cumulative Effects on Crop Growth and Soil Properties
Robert F. Bevacqua; Valerie J. Mellano Compost Science & Utilization 1993. doi:10.1080/1065657x.1993.10757886
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Snapdragon seedlings transplanted to compost-treated plots established more vigorously than seedlings in control plots.
- Intervention effect Lettuce seedlings transplanted to compost-treated plots established more vigorously than seedlings in control plots.
- Intervention effect Compost treatments produced higher onion yields.
- Intervention effect Compost treatments produced higher turfgrass yields.
- Intervention effect Compost treatments produced higher lettuce yields.
- Intervention effect Snapdragon yield was not affected by compost treatment.
- Observation Compost-treated plots had lower soil pH.
- Observation Compost-treated plots had higher soil organic matter, primary nutrients and soluble salts.
- Observation Compost-treated plots had higher soil heavy metal levels.