Claim · model-written summary
Cluster bean straw mulch lowered soil temperature by 3.4°C.
- Taxon
- brinjal
Solanum melongenat0 - Treatment
- cluster bean strawe0
- Outcome
- soil temperaturee0
- Direction
- lowerede0
- Value
- 3.4°Ce0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching with FYM and cluster bean straw lowered the soil temperature by 4.9° and 3.4°C at a depth of 15 cm”
t0“brinjal”
Title
Effect of manuring and mulches on irrigated arid brinjal in Western India
I.S. Singh; O. P. Awasthi; A. Nagaraja Indian Journal of Horticulture 2013
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect FYM mulch conserved soil moisture relative to control.
- Intervention effect Other soil management practices conserved soil moisture relative to control.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch lowered soil temperature by 4.9°.
- Intervention effect Mulches increased winter soil temperature.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch increased root length to aerial mass ratio by 140% over control.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch increased root length density by 370%.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch increased root weight density by 392%.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch increased root volume by 198%.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch increased fruit yield by 173%.
- Intervention effect Cluster bean straw mulch increased fruit yield by 154%.
- Intervention effect FYM raised N status by 363% over control.
- Intervention effect FYM raised P status by 392% over control.
- Intervention effect FYM raised K status by 275% over control.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch significantly increased crop nutrient removal compared with other treatments.
- Intervention effect FYM mulch gave the highest benefit to cost ratio of 1.91 versus 0.83 for control.
- Recommendation FYM mulch could be a strategy to increase brinjal production.