Abstract
Aluminum-painted plastic mulch, whether with the entire exposed mulch surface painted or with lateral strips painted, generally was equivalent to aluminum plastic film and superior to non-painted plastic or bare soil as to the numbers of aphids and thrips collected from water dish traps or as to the numbers of aphids on foliage. Numbers of thrips in flowers were not affected consistently by mulch treatments. Effects of the aluminum-painted mulch appeared to persist longer on pepper than on tomato probably because the pepper plants were smaller than the tomato plants and covered less of the mulch. The aluminum-painted mulch did not affect significantly the numbers of leafmines and mite colonies on tomato foliage but did result in fewer tomato plants infected with aphid-transmitted virus compared to non-painted mulch. Less virus also was observed on plants grown on aluminum-painted mulch in a commercial tomato field even though differences in the numbers of aphids on foliage were not significant relative to black mulch.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum-painted plastic mulch was superior to non-painted plastic or bare soil for aphid and thrips numbers in pepper and tomato.
- Taxon
- pepper and tomatot0
- Treatment
- Aluminum-painted plastic mulche1
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae1pest
- Outcome
- numbers of aphids and thripse1
- Direction
- superiore1
- Comparator
- non-painted plastic or bare soile1
ThripsOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e1“Aluminum-painted plastic mulch, whether with the entire exposed mulch surface painted or with lateral strips painted, generally was equivalent to aluminum plastic film and superior to non-painted plastic or bare soil as to the numbers of aphids and thrips collected from water dish traps or as to the numbers of aphids on foliage”
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum-painted plastic mulch was equivalent to aluminum plastic film for aphid and thrips numbers in pepper and tomato.
- Taxon
- pepper and tomatot0
- Treatment
- Aluminum-painted plastic mulche1
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae1pest
- Outcome
- numbers of aphids and thripse1
- Direction
- equivalente1
- Comparator
- aluminum plastic filme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e1“Aluminum-painted plastic mulch, whether with the entire exposed mulch surface painted or with lateral strips painted, generally was equivalent to aluminum plastic film and superior to non-painted plastic or bare soil as to the numbers of aphids and thrips collected from water dish traps or as to the numbers of aphids on foliage”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch treatments did not consistently affect thrips numbers in flowers of pepper and tomato.
- Taxon
- pepper and tomatot0
- Treatment
- mulch treatmentse2
- Outcome
- Numbers of thrips in flowerse2
- Direction
- not affected consistentlye2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e2“Numbers of thrips in flowers were not affected consistently by mulch treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Effects of aluminum-painted mulch appeared to persist longer on pepper than on tomato.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e3“Effects of the aluminum-painted mulch appeared to persist longer on pepper than on tomato probably because the pepper plants were smaller than the tomato plants and covered less of the mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum-painted mulch did not significantly affect leafminer or mite-colony numbers on tomato foliage.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume4 - Treatment
- aluminum-painted mulche4
- Interactor
- leafminese4pest
- Second interactor
- mite coloniese4pest
- Outcome
- numbers of leafmines and mite coloniese4
- Direction
- did not affect significantlye4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e4“The aluminum-painted mulch did not affect significantly the numbers of leafmines and mite colonies on tomato foliage”
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum-painted mulch resulted in fewer tomato plants infected with aphid-transmitted virus than non-painted mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume5
- Treatment
- aluminum-painted mulche4
- Interactor
- aphid-transmitted viruse5pathogen
- Outcome
- plants infected with aphid-transmitted viruse5
- Direction
- fewere5
- Comparator
- non-painted mulche5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e4“The aluminum-painted mulch did not affect significantly the numbers of leafmines and mite colonies on tomato foliage”
e5“but did result in fewer tomato plants infected with aphid-transmitted virus compared to non-painted mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Less virus was observed on tomato plants grown on aluminum-painted mulch in a commercial field.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume6
- Treatment
- aluminum-painted mulche6
- Interactor
- viruse6pathogen
- Outcome
- viruse6
- Direction
- Lesse6
- Setting
- commercial tomato fielde6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e6“Less virus also was observed on plants grown on aluminum-painted mulch in a commercial tomato field even though differences in the numbers of aphids on foliage were not significant relative to black mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum-painted mulch did not significantly change aphid numbers on tomato foliage relative to black mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume6
- Treatment
- aluminum-painted mulche6
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae6pest
- Outcome
- numbers of aphids on foliagee6
- Direction
- not significante6
- Comparator
- black mulche6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pepper and Tomato”
e6“Less virus also was observed on plants grown on aluminum-painted mulch in a commercial tomato field even though differences in the numbers of aphids on foliage were not significant relative to black mulch”
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