Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch gave a lower weed index than the other weed control treatments.
- Taxon
- Allium cepa
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- black plastic mulche1
- Interactor
- weedse1weed
- Outcome
- weed indexe1
- Direction
- lowerinferrede1
- Comparator
- other treatmentse1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a widely grown vegetable crop in India”
e1“black plastic mulch was found to be most effective in controlling weeds with minimum weed density and biomass, weed index (%) and highest weed control efficiency (%) as compared to other treatments”
Title
Effect of weed control methods on weeds, onion growth and yield
Pratibha Hembrom; Punam Horo; Sheela Barla; et al. Indian Journal of Weed Science 2023. doi:10.5958/0974-8164.2023.00020.5
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch gave the minimum weed density and biomass among the weed control treatments.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch gave the highest weed control efficiency among the weed control treatments.
- Intervention effect Onion grown with black plastic mulch had better plant height, number of leaves and neck thickness.
- Intervention effect Onion grown with black plastic mulch had maximum average bulb weight, bulb diameter and bulb yield.
- Intervention effect Pendimethalin pre-emergence application recorded the highest net returns and B:C ratio, being cost effective.