Claim · model-written summary
Total soil water consumption during tomato growth ranked newspaper highest, then bare land, grass and bran
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Outcome
- total soil water consumptione5
- Qualifier
- newspaper (103 mm) > bare (74 mm) > grass (73 mm) > bran (60 mm)e5
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Verbatim
t0“greenhouse production of tomato under unheated greenhouse cultivation in the cold zone of China”
e5“The total soil water consumption during tomato growth was in the following order: newspaper (103 mm) > bare (74 mm) > grass (73 mm) > bran (60 mm)”
Title
Pengfei Zhang; Zhaorui Zhang; Menglin Xiao; et al. Food Science & Nutrition 2023. doi:10.1002/fsn3.3460
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- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching lowered the daily soil temperature range by 1.9 relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching lowered the daily soil temperature range by 2.1 relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching had little effect on soil temperature and fruit quality compared with bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching increased soil moisture by 14.1% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching increased WUE b by 31.3% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching increased WUE y by 30.6% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching increased tomato yield by 81.8% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Newspaper mulching increased biomass by 82.7% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Bran mulching increased soil moisture by 16% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Bran mulching increased WUE b by 60.1% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Bran mulching increased WUE y by 44.3% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Bran mulching increased biomass by 30.2% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Bran mulching increased tomato yield by 17.3% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching increased soil moisture by 20.9% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching increased WUE b by 20.5% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching increased WUE y by 13.6% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching increased biomass by 17.9% relative to bare land
- Intervention effect Grass mulching increased tomato yield by 11.2% relative to bare land