Claim · model-written summary
The 35 mL rooted plug transplant had a 79% harvest index, 7% greater than the control.
- Taxon
- Sweetpotato
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Ipomoea batatast0 - Treatment
- plug transplants (35 mL, with roots)e0
- Outcome
- percent harvest indexe0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 79%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“plug transplants (35 mL, with roots) gave a percent harvest index of 79%, 7% greater than the control”
t0“Sweetpotato”
Title
A. F. M. Saiful Islam; Chieri Kubota; Michiko Takagaki; et al. Crop Science 2002. doi:10.2135/cropsci2002.8220
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Intact plug transplants yielded 39 to 40 Mg ha −1 of storage roots, 11 to 12 Mg ha −1 above conventional cuttings.
- Intervention effect Storage roots from 35 mL rooted plugs reached 271 mm maximum length, 58 mm longer than control.
- Intervention effect Storage roots from 35 mL rooted plugs reached 68 mm maximum diameter, 18 mm wider than control.
- Intervention effect Plug transplants had significantly higher growth and yield than conventional cuttings regardless of plug volume or root removal.
- Intervention effect Rooted plug transplants had greater growth and yield than rootless plugs at either volume.