Claim · model-written summary
Guinea grass re-emerged on all treatment plots.
- Taxon
- pineapple
Ananas comosust0 - Interactor
- Panicum maximum
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Megathyrsus maximuse0weed - Outcome
- re-emerged on all treatment plotse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Guinea grass (Panicum maximum) belonging to the Poaceae family re-emerged on all treatment plots.”
t0“pineapple”
Title
Effects of weed management on the prevalence of pink pineapple mealybugs in Ghana
JW Tachie-Menson; J Sarkodie-Addo; AG Carlson Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana) 2015. doi:10.4314/just.v34i2.3
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Weeds re-emerged latest under plastic mulch plus herbicide.
- Intervention effect Weeds re-emerged fastest after manual weed control.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch plus herbicide controlled all broadleaved weeds.
- Intervention effect Most broadleaved and grass species re-emerged after manual weeding.
- Intervention effect Weed population, dry weight and species count were significantly lowest under plastic mulch plus herbicide and greatest with manual weeding.
- Intervention effect plastic mulch + herbicide achieved 90.6 weed-control efficiency over the weedy check.
- Intervention effect plastic mulch + manual control achieved 80.2 weed-control efficiency over the weedy check.
- Intervention effect herbicide alone achieved 73.4 weed-control efficiency over the weedy check.
- Intervention effect manual control achieved 69.2% weed-control efficiency over the weedy check.
- Intervention effect Mealybug populations showed no difference among weed-management methods.
- Intervention effect All weed treatments significantly reduced mealybugs compared with the weedy check.
- Mechanism The authors hypothesize that weed control exposes mealybugs to predators or disrupts tending ants.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that proper weed control would reduce mealybug populations and fruit damage.