Claim · model-written summary
Wheat straw mulch lowered summer soil temperatures compared with unmulched plots.
- Taxon
- Garlic
Allium sativume0 - Treatment
- wheat strawe6
- Outcome
- Soil temperaturese3
- Direction
- lowere3
- Qualifier
- during the summere3
- Comparator
- unmulched plotse3
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Garlic ( Allium sativum L.) has been cultivated in much of the world”
e3“Soil temperatures under the wheat straw were significantly lower during the summer than soil temperatures in unmulched plots”
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 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%.
- Intervention effect Wheat straw mulch did not significantly increase basal fungal infection.
- Recommendation Straw mulch can improve garlic produced in the northeastern United States.