Claim · model-written summary
Solar mulching increased crop quality by 123.5%.
- Taxon
- peanuts
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Treatment
- mulched for 6 weekse1
- Outcome
- crop qualitye0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 123.5%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“an increase of 52.8% and 123.5% in total yield and crop quality, resp.”
e1“Soils, mulched for 6 weeks during July-Aug., were sown with groundnut the next spring.”
t0“peanuts”
Title
Control of Sclerotium rolfsii and weeds in peanuts by solar heating of the soil
A. Grinstein; J. Katan; A. Razik 1979
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Solar mulching raised soil temperature.
- Intervention effect Solar mulching significantly decreased diseased groundnut plants.
- Intervention effect Solar mulching significantly decreased rotten groundnut pods.
- Intervention effect Solar mulching significantly decreased weeds.
- Intervention effect Solar mulching increased total groundnut yield by 52.8%.
- Observation Maintaining moisture, drip irrigation, and irrigation before mulching produced similar results.
- Intervention effect Solar heating reduced pod colonization by Aspergillus species.