Claim · model-written summary
Transparent and blue plastic mulches encouraged weed population.
- Taxon
- chillit0
- Treatment
- Transparent and blue plastic mulchese0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed populatione0
- Direction
- encouragede0
- Comparator
- bare soile1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Transparent and blue plastic mulches encouraged weed population”
e1“bare soil was the control”
t0“yield of chilli”
Title
Effect of plastic mulch on growth and yield of chilli (Capsicum annuum L.)
M Ashrafuzzaman; M. Abdul Halim; Mohd Razi Ismail; et al. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 2011. doi:10.1590/s1516-89132011000200014
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Mulches produced higher soil temperature and soil moisture than the control.
- Intervention effect Weed population was suppressed under black plastic mulch.
- Intervention effect Plant height, number of primary branches and stem base diameter were better for chilli plants on plastic mulch.
- Intervention effect Number of leaves and yield were better for chilli plants on plastic mulch.
- Intervention effect At the mature green stage, chilli fruits had the highest vitamin-C content on black plastic.
- Intervention effect Mulching produced fruits with the highest chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b and total chlorophyll contents.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased the number of fruits per plant.
- Intervention effect Mulching did not affect fruit length, fruit diameter or number of seeds per fruit.
- Intervention effect Plants on black plastic mulch had the maximum number of fruits.
- Intervention effect Plants on black plastic mulch had the highest yield.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that mulching appears to be a viable tool to increase chilli production under tropical conditions.