Claim · model-written summary
Straw mulch increased sugar beet root yield by 11.2% versus conventional ploughing.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0 - Treatment
- straw mulche0
- Outcome
- root yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 11.2%e0
- Comparator
- conventional ploughinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Replacing conventional ploughing with mustard mulch caused 9.4% root yield increase and with straw mulch 11.2%.”
t0“The yield and technological quality of sugar beet roots cultivated in mulches”
Title
The yield and technological quality of sugar beet roots cultivated in mulches
A. Artyszak; D. Gozdowski; K. Kucińska Plant Soil and Environment 2014. doi:10.17221/428/2014-pse
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Mustard mulch produced the highest sugar beet plant density at harvest.
- Intervention effect Mustard mulch increased sugar beet root yield by 9.4% versus conventional ploughing.
- Intervention effect Cultivation system did not affect sugar beet root sucrose content.
- Intervention effect Cultivation system did not affect sugar beet root melassigenic components except potassium.
- Intervention effect Mustard mulch increased technological sugar yield by 8.0%.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch increased technological sugar yield by 11.3%.
- Observation Esperanza had higher root yield, root mass and technological sugar yield than Henrike.
- Observation Esperenza roots had lower alpha-amino-nitrogen content.
- Observation Henrike roots had higher sucrose content.
- Observation Henrike roots had lower sodium content.
- Observation Straw mulch gave the lowest variability in sugar beet root yield and technological quality.