Claim · model-written summary
Kaolin increased tomato yield by over 26% relative to treatments without kaolin.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- kaoline0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- over 26%e0
- Comparator
- treatments without kaoline0
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Verbatim
e0“kaolin significantly increased yield by over 26% compared to treatments without kaolin”
t0“Thrips and Tomato Spotted Wilt on Tomato”
Title
Stuart R. Reitz; Giuseppina Maiorino; Steve Olson; et al. Plant Disease 2008. doi:10.1094/pdis-92-6-0878
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Treatments did not clearly affect vector abundance.
- Intervention effect Geraniol with kaolin reduced tomato spotted wilt incidence versus control in both years.
- Intervention effect Lemongrass oil with kaolin reduced tomato spotted wilt incidence versus control in both years.
- Intervention effect Tea tree oil with kaolin reduced spotted wilt as effectively as standard insecticide treatments.
- Intervention effect Essential oils applied with kaolin produced yields similar to the insecticide standard.
- Recommendation The authors propose essential oils and kaolin to reduce insecticide use on tomatoes.