Claim · model-written summary
Marketability under BioAgri was 14% lower than bare ground and WeedGuardPlus.
- Treatment
- BioAgrie0
- Outcome
- marketabilitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 14%e0
- Comparator
- bare ground and WeedGuardPlus treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“BioAgri, BioTelo and polyethylene increased total yields by 20%, though marketability was reduced 14% compared to bare ground and WeedGuardPlus treatments.”
Title
Jeremy S Cowan; Carol A Miles; Preston K Andrews; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2013. doi:10.1002/jsfa.6504
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Fewer weeds grew in high tunnels than the open field.
- Intervention effect High tunnels increased total and marketable tomato fruit yields and individual fruit weight.
- Intervention effect High tunnels increased tomato juice content and fruit pH.
- Intervention effect High tunnels decreased tomato total soluble solids, titratable acidity and total phenolics.
- Intervention effect All mulch treatments except SB-PLA-10 controlled weeds.
- Intervention effect BioAgri increased total yield by 20%.
- Intervention effect BioTelo increased total yield by 20%.
- Intervention effect Polyethylene increased total yield by 20%.
- Intervention effect Marketability under BioTelo was 14% lower than bare ground and WeedGuardPlus.
- Intervention effect Marketability under polyethylene was 14% lower than bare ground and WeedGuardPlus.
- Intervention effect Biodegradable plastic mulches performed comparably to polyethylene for weed control, yield and fruit quality.