Intervention effectmodel-written summary

White-surface polyethylene mulch increased total fresh tuber yield.

A claim from Effects of mulching materials on the growth, development and yield of white yam · 1994

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

White-surface polyethylene mulch increased total fresh tuber yield.

Treatment
white surface polyethylene plastic mulche0
Outcome
total fresh tuber yielde0
Direction
highere0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata
Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata · TaxonDorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Total dry matter per plant and total fresh tuber yield were all consistently higher in plants grown under the white surface polyethylene plastic mulch.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 646–797
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“white yam (Dioscorea rotundata)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 143–174

Title

Effects of mulching materials on the growth, development and yield of white yam

D.S.O. Osiru; S.K. Kahn TSpace 1994

Other claims from this paper (2)

Record rev-e8643fd80518d2522fda31d60aa687dbcf26553a347af5f98dd1d5461c761a4f · schema claims-v0.9 · position 3 in the model’s answer

mulching · yield · Dioscorea cayenensis (yellow yam)Results agree

3 papers: 3 positive, 0 negative or no effect

2 papers in the same direction as this claim

  1. positive
    Grass mulch gave tuber yield about 4-6 tonnes ha-1 season-1 greater than polythene mulch and unmulched plots.

    Effect of Mulching on Soil Temperature and Moisture Regime on Emergence, Growth and Yield of White Yam in a Tropical Wet-and-Dry Climate · 2012 · compared with the polythene mulch and the unmulched plots

    Same direction

  2. positive
    Grass mulch gave greater tuber yield than banana pseudostem, leaf mulch and unmulched plots.

    Effect of Planting and Mulching Materials on Growth and Yield of White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata) in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria · 2024 · compared with banana pseudostem, leave mulch and the unmulched plots

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.