Claim · model-written summary
Transferred mulch reduced CPB initial infestation by −24%.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- mulche0
- Interactor
- CPBe1pest
- Outcome
- initial infestatione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- −24%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Over all experiments, mulch significantly reduced initial infestation (−24%), egg masses (−27%) and larvae (−75%)”
t0“Regenerative Potato Cropping Systems”
e1“Mulch mainly resulted in delayed CPB infestation”
Title
Stephan Martin Junge; Simeon Leisch-Waskönig; Julian Winkler; et al. Agriculture 2022. doi:10.3390/agriculture12122130
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Transferred mulch reduced CPB egg masses by −27%.
- Intervention effect Transferred mulch reduced CPB larvae by −75%.
- Intervention effect Compost and reduced tillage added to mulch effects.
- Intervention effect Mulch delayed CPB infestation.
- Observation In a warm season with a second CPB generation, mulch regulation was insufficient.
- Recommendation The authors recommend combining green manure mulch, reduced tillage and compost for CPB regulation.