Claim · model-written summary
Plastic or straw mulches combined with compost increased fresh and dry whole-plant weights.
- Taxon
- Allium sativum
Allium sativume1 - Treatment
- plastic or straw mulchese3
- Outcome
- whole-plante3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Qualifier
- Fresh and dry weightse3
- Setting
- field experimentse2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Garlic (Allium sativum, L.) is an important vegetable crop in Egypt”
e2“Two field experiments were carried out during the two consecutive seasons of 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 at Experimental Farm of Horticulture at El-Kassasein Distract, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt”
e3“Fresh and dry weights of bulb as well as whole-plant increased by using plastic or straw mulches in combined with compost treatments with no significant difference between them”
Title
R. Anwar; E. Awad; R. Mohamed Journal of Plant Production 2020. doi:10.21608/jpp.2020.161578
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Plastic, straw and hoeing plus 10 % compost tea gave the highest garlic plant height and leaf number per plant.
- Intervention effect Plastic, straw and hoeing plus 10 % compost tea gave the highest garlic bulb diameter and bulbing ratio.
- Intervention effect Plastic or straw mulches combined with compost increased fresh and dry bulb weights.
- Intervention effect Fresh and dry bulb weights did not differ significantly between plastic and straw mulches combined with compost.
- Intervention effect Straw mulch with foliar spray of 10 % compost tea recorded the highest average bulb weight.
- Intervention effect Straw or plastic mulches plus compost significantly increased average clove weight, total bulb fresh yield per feddan and relative yield percentage.
- Intervention effect In most cases, straw or plastic mulches with foliar spray of 10 % compost tea increased total soluble solids in garlic bulb.
- Intervention effect In most cases, straw or plastic mulches with foliar spray of 10 % compost tea increased nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium percentages in garlic bulb.