Claim · model-written summary
Fungicides did not affect MT 56 disease severity in season two.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- MT 56e0
- Treatment
- Application of fungicidese1
- Interactor
- Alternaria solani Sorauer
Alternaria solanie1pathogen - Outcome
- disease severitye0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“did not affect disease severity for ‘MT 56’ in the second season”
e1“Application of fungicides reduced disease severity (early blight, Alternaria solani Sorauer)”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Evaluation of Horticultural Practices for Sustainable Tomato Production in Eastern Uganda
Sharon M. Tusiime; Gail R. Nonnecke; Dorothy M. Masinde; et al. HortScience 2019. doi:10.21273/hortsci14277-19
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation MT 56 with fungicide and soil mulch had the highest marketable fruit number and weight and positive gross margin in season one.
- Observation MT 56 without fungicide and mulch was the only treatment with positive gross margin in season two.
- Intervention effect Fungicides reduced early blight severity for all cultivars in season one.
- Intervention effect Fungicides reduced early blight severity for Heinz 1370 and Nuru F1 in season two.
- Intervention effect Soil mulch reduced early blight severity.
- Intervention effect Purchased soil mulch decreased gross margin.
- Intervention effect Staking did not affect yield or disease severity.
- Intervention effect Staking decreased gross margin.
- Observation MT 56 had highest gross margin and marketable fruit and lowest disease severity.
- Recommendation Authors recommend making MT 56 seed available to small tomato farmers in Uganda.