Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased plant size, suckers, survival and root health.
- Taxon
- plantainMusa ABB Groupt0
- Treatment
- Mulched plantse0
- Outcome
- larger, had more suckers, survived longer and had healthier root systemse0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- non-mulched plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Mulched plants were larger, had more suckers, survived longer and had healthier root systems compared with non-mulched plants.”
t0“plantain”
Title
Annemarie Auwerkerken; Thomas Dubois; Bart De Schutter; et al. Nematology 2005. doi:10.1163/156854105774384796
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Nematode inoculated plants failed to reach harvest.
- Intervention effect Noninoculated unmulched plants also failed to reach harvest.
- Observation Only noninoculated mulched plants reached harvest.
- Observation First ratoon yielded 0.85 Mg per hectare under noninoculated mulch.
- Observation Second ratoon yielded 1.22 Mg per hectare under noninoculated mulch.
- Observation Third ratoon yielded 0.2 Mg per hectare under noninoculated mulch.
- Intervention effect Nematode inoculation increased root damage in the first two ratoons, but not the third.
- Association Radopholus similis was most strongly associated with root damage.
- Association H. multicinctus density correlated positively with root necrosis.
- Observation At first ratoon flowering, mortality was 71% in inoculated unmulched plants versus 1% in noninoculated mulched plants.
- Observation H. multicinctus remained the most abundant nematode and, with R. similis, exceeded 95% of plant parasitic nematodes.