Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Mulching significantly increased tuber yield by about 6-8 tonnes ha-1 season-1 compared with unmulched plots, irrespective of mulch material.

A claim from Effect of Mulching on Soil Temperature and Moisture Regime on Emergence, Growth and Yield of White Yam in a Tropical Wet-and-Dry Climate · 2012

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Mulching significantly increased tuber yield by about 6-8 tonnes ha-1 season-1 compared with unmulched plots, irrespective of mulch material.

Treatment
mulchinge1
Outcome
tuber yielde1
Direction
increasede1
Value
6-8 tonnes ha-1 season-1e1
Qualifier
Irrespective of mulching materialse1
Comparator
unmulchede1

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata
Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata · TaxonDorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“on white yam (Dioscorea rotundata) growth and yield in Abeokuta, South-western Nigeria”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 112–198
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“Irrespective of mulching materials, it was found that mulching significantly (P< 0.05) increased tuber yield by about 6-8 tonnes ha-1 season-1 than the unmulched”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 731–892

Title

Effect of Mulching on Soil Temperature and Moisture Regime on Emergence, Growth and Yield of White Yam in a Tropical Wet-and-Dry Climate

Eruola A. O; Bello N. J; Ufoegbune G. C; et al. International Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 2012. doi:10.5923/j.ijaf.20120201.15

Other claims from this paper (1)

Record rev-9668682dc87fc0404bfd7e84ee526996d0a20ce24d65ee6abcbae1ca95fd99bd · schema claims-v0.9 · position 5 in the model’s answer

mulching · yield · Dioscorea cayenensis (yellow yam)Results agree

3 papers: 3 positive, 0 negative or no effect

2 papers in the same direction as this claim

  1. positive
    Grass mulch gave greater tuber yield than banana pseudostem, leaf mulch and unmulched plots.

    Effect of Planting and Mulching Materials on Growth and Yield of White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata) in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria · 2024 · compared with banana pseudostem, leave mulch and the unmulched plots

    Same directionCites this paper

  2. positive
    White-surface polyethylene mulch increased total fresh tuber yield.

    Effects of mulching materials on the growth, development and yield of white yam · 1994

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.