Abstract
SUMMARY Maintaining one, two or three suckers per rootstock in plantain ( Musa spp. ) populations of 2000, 1600 and 1333 per hectare were evaluated for sustained yield in the orchard for three harvest cycles. The yield per plantain for the plant crop was not significantly affected by either population density or the number of suckers maintained. However, the total yield significantly increased with the increased plantain population per hectare. The yield per plantain decreased in the first and subsequent ratoon crop harvests as the original plantain population per hectare doubled or tripled when two or three suckers were maintained respectively per rootstock. Although the total yield per hectare was significantly higher when two or three suckers were maintained per rootstock, the individual bunch weight and the fingers significantly decreased to an unacceptable size to the consumers. Establishment of orchards at 1600 plantains per hectare with two suckers maintained per rootstock in subsequent cycles produced consistently good quality marketable fingers and sustained high yield.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Plant-crop yield per plantain did not differ significantly with density or sucker number.
- Taxon
- plantainMusa ABB Groupe1
- Treatment
- population density or the number of suckers maintainede0
- Outcome
- yield per plantain for the plant crope0
- Direction
- not significantly affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“The yield per plantain for the plant crop was not significantly affected by either population density or the number of suckers maintained”
e1“plantain ( Musa spp. )”
Claim · model-written summary
Total yield rose significantly as plantain density increased.
- Taxon
- plantainMusa ABB Groupe0
- Treatment
- increased plantain population per hectaree0
- Outcome
- total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“the total yield significantly increased with the increased plantain population per hectare”
Claim · model-written summary
Yield per plantain fell in first and later ratoons when two or three suckers doubled or tripled the original plant population.
Verbatim
e0“The yield per plantain decreased in the first and subsequent ratoon crop harvests as the original plantain population per hectare doubled or tripled when two or three suckers were maintained respectively per rootstock”
Claim · model-written summary
Maintaining two or three suckers per rootstock significantly increased total yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- plantainMusa ABB Groupe1
- Treatment
- two or three suckers were maintained per rootstocke0
- Outcome
- total yield per hectaree0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“the total yield per hectare was significantly higher when two or three suckers were maintained per rootstock”
e1“the increased plantain population per hectare”
Claim · model-written summary
Two or three suckers per rootstock significantly reduced bunch weight and finger size to unacceptable levels.
- Taxon
- plantainMusa ABB Groupe1
- Treatment
- two or three suckers were maintained per rootstocke0
- Outcome
- individual bunch weight and the fingerse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Qualifier
- unacceptable size to the consumerse0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“when two or three suckers were maintained per rootstock, the individual bunch weight and the fingers significantly decreased to an unacceptable size to the consumers”
e1“the increased plantain population per hectare”
Claim · model-written summary
A 1600-plantain-per-hectare orchard with two suckers per rootstock sustained high yield and marketable finger quality.
- Taxon
- plantainsMusa ABB Groupe0
- Treatment
- 1600 plantains per hectare with two suckers maintained per rootstocke0
- Outcome
- consistently good quality marketable fingers and sustained high yielde0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Verbatim
e0“Establishment of orchards at 1600 plantains per hectare with two suckers maintained per rootstock in subsequent cycles produced consistently good quality marketable fingers and sustained high yield”
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