Claim · model-written summary
Watermelon plant growth benefited from soil warming under blue, black and red plastic film mulches.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- plastic film mulchese5
- Outcome
- plant growthe5
- Direction
- benefitede5
- Qualifier
- soil warminge5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) & Nakai] is widely grown on plastic mulches in the southeast United States”
e5“Watermelon plant growth benefited from soil warming using plastic film mulches, mainly blue, black, and red”
Title
Plant growth and fruit yield of watermelon as influenced by colored plastic film mulch
Juan C. Díaz-Pérez International Journal of Vegetable Science 2022. doi:10.1080/19315260.2022.2117756
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect In the first weeks after transplanting, canopy development of watermelon was more rapid on black, blue and red mulches than on silver and white mulches.
- Intervention effect Differences in canopy development among mulch treatments tended to decrease as the season progressed.
- Intervention effect Fruit yield did not differ among the colored mulches.
- Observation Root zone temperature during fruiting was within the estimated optimal range for watermelon, at about 28.3°C.