Claim · model-written summary
Wheat straw mulch did not significantly increase basal fungal infection.
- Taxon
- Garlic
Allium sativume0 - Treatment
- wheat strawe6
- Outcome
- amount of basal fungal infectione7
- Direction
- no significant increasee7
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Garlic ( Allium sativum L.) has been cultivated in much of the world”
e7“We found no significant increase in the amount of basal fungal infection”
e6“the effectiveness of wheat straw ( Triticum aestivum ) mulch on garlic”
Title
Improving Garlic Using Wheat Straw Mulch
Angela M. O'Callaghan HortScience 1996. doi:10.21273/hortsci.31.4.611b
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Winter mulch increased garlic survival rate.
- Intervention effect Wheat straw mulch lowered summer soil temperatures compared with unmulched plots.
- Intervention effect Wheat straw mulch may have contributed to higher yield and average bulb size in several garlic cultivars.
- Intervention effect Keeping mulch through the whole growing season reduced weed pressure by more than 30%.
- Recommendation Straw mulch can improve garlic produced in the northeastern United States.