Claim · model-written summary
Nematode inoculation had little effect on banana biomass in the bare soil treatments.
- Taxon
- Bananat0
- Treatment
- Nematode inoculatione0
- Outcome
- biomasse0
- Direction
- little effecte0
- Setting
- bare soil treatmentse0
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Verbatim
t0“Banana Inoculated with Nematodes”
e0“Nematode inoculation had little effect on biomass or foliar nutrient concentrations of P, K, Ca, and Mg in the bare soil treatments”
Title
Effects of Mulching on Biomass, Nutrients, and Soil Water in Banana Inoculated with Nematodes
Beverly D. McIntyre; Paul R. Speijer; Susan J. Riha; et al. Agronomy Journal 2000. doi:10.2134/agronj2000.9261081x
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Mulched banana treatments produced over three times more biomass than bare soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Mulched treatments had higher soil organic C and P concentrations.
- Intervention effect Mulched treatments had higher exchangeable K and Mg concentrations.
- Intervention effect Mulched treatments had higher foliar K concentration.
- Intervention effect Mulched banana took up more water from both the 0-0.3 m and 0.3-0.5 m depths than banana grown without mulch.
- Intervention effect Soil water recharged more quickly in the mulched treatments, as a result of increased porosity from 0-0.3 m depth.
- Intervention effect Nematode inoculation had little effect on foliar P, K, Ca and Mg concentrations of banana in the bare soil treatments.
- Intervention effect In the mulched treatments, nematode inoculation reduced banana biomass and yield.
- Intervention effect More root necrosis was observed in the nematode-inoculated treatments.
- Mechanism The authors suggest that growth was so restricted by low fertility in the bare soil treatment that nematode damage was not a limiting factor.
- Recommendation The authors suggest that mulching may mitigate the impact of nematodes on bananas when applied to low fertility systems.