Abstract
Ten cultivars of processing tomatoes ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) grown in bare soil or on black polyethylene and hairy vetch ( Vicia villosa Roth.) mulches were evaluated for yield, fruit processing quality, and leaf necrosis. Yields were higher, fruit was heavier, and leaf necrosis less in hairy vetch than in bare soil or black polyethylene mulch. With the exception of pH, yield and fruit quality component responses to mulch treatments were not cultivar-dependent. Fruit pH, soluble solids concentration, and color equaled values obtained using bare soil production practices. Percent solids was highest with black polyethylene and lowest in hairy vetch. The hairy vetch mulch delayed fruit maturity compared to the bare soil and black polyethylene. The hairy vetch cultural system has the potential to increase yield of processing tomatoes.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Hairy vetch mulch increased tomato yield compared with bare soil or black polyethylene mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- hairy vetche1
- Outcome
- Yieldse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- bare soil or black polyethylene mulche1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Yields were higher, fruit was heavier, and leaf necrosis less in hairy vetch than in bare soil or black polyethylene mulch”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit was heavier with hairy vetch than with bare soil or black polyethylene mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hairy vetche1
- Outcome
- fruite1
- Direction
- heaviere1
- Comparator
- bare soil or black polyethylene mulche1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“fruit was heavier, and leaf necrosis less in hairy vetch than in bare soil or black polyethylene mulch”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Hairy vetch reduced leaf necrosis relative to bare soil or black polyethylene mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hairy vetche1
- Outcome
- leaf necrosise1
- Direction
- lesse1
- Comparator
- bare soil or black polyethylene mulche1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“leaf necrosis less in hairy vetch than in bare soil or black polyethylene mulch”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Apart from pH, tomato yield and fruit quality responses to mulch did not depend on cultivar.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- mulch treatmentse1
- Outcome
- yield and fruit quality component responsese1
- Direction
- not cultivar-dependente1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“With the exception of pH, yield and fruit quality component responses to mulch treatments were not cultivar-dependent”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit pH, soluble solids and color under hairy vetch equaled bare soil values.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- Fruit pH, soluble solids concentration, and colore1
- Direction
- equalede1
- Comparator
- bare soil production practicese1
Not reportedTreatment
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Fruit pH, soluble solids concentration, and color equaled values obtained using bare soil production practices”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Percent solids was highest with black polyethylene and lowest with hairy vetch.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black polyethylenee1
- Outcome
- Percent solidse1
- Direction
- higheste1
- Comparator
- hairy vetche1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Percent solids was highest with black polyethylene and lowest in hairy vetch”
t0“processing tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Hairy vetch delayed tomato fruit maturity relative to bare soil and black polyethylene.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hairy vetch mulche1
- Outcome
- fruit maturitye1
- Direction
- delayede1
- Comparator
- bare soil and black polyethylenee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The hairy vetch mulch delayed fruit maturity compared to the bare soil and black polyethylene”
t0“processing tomatoes”
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