Claim · model-written summary
Clear plastic mulch increased Top Notch and Skyline germination at Mt. Carmel by 3-17%.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayst0 - Treatment
- clear plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- mcreasede0
- Value
- 3-17%e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“clear plastic mulch mcreased germination of Top Notch and Sky- line 3-17%”
t0“Bicolor supersweet corn”
Title
Bicolor supersweet corn trials.
David E. Hill Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation Crop 1 average yield was higher at Windsor than at Mt. Carmel.
- Observation Crop 2 average yield at Windsor was 13,830 ears/A.
- Observation Confection had the highest Crop 1 yield at Windsor, 23,845 ears/A.
- Observation Confection yielded 16,995 ears/A at Mt. Carmel in Crop 1.
- Mechanism High Confection yield was attributed to 72-75% germination.
- Observation Summer Sweet 8102 yielded 19,660 ears/A in Crop 1 at Windsor.
- Observation Summer Sweet 8102 yielded 20,530 ears/A in Crop 2 at Windsor.
- Mechanism Summer Sweet 8102 high yield was attributed to 2.2 ears per plant.
- Observation Eagle had the longest ears at 7.9 in.
- Observation Eagle had the heaviest ears at 8.4 oz.
- Observation Eagle ears had a median 16 rows, with 30% having 18 rows.
- Observation Untreated Eagle seed germinated poorly.
- Observation Summer Sweet 8102 had excellent husk cover and the greatest Grade 1 percentage, 72.
- Observation Top Notch ears were longer and heavier at Mt. Carmel than Windsor.
- Observation Top Notch Grade 1 ears exceeded 75% at Windsor versus 22% at Mt. Carmel.
- Intervention effect Clear plastic mulch increased germination of Confection, Summer Sweet 8102 and Sweet Heart by over 20% at Windsor on May 14.
- Intervention effect Reemay row cover increased germination of Confection and Top Notch by over 20%.
- Intervention effect Clear plastic mulch caused profound germination decreases in all cultivars in the May 27-28 planting.
- Mechanism Covered seeds were killed by temperatures above 125F on sunny days.