Abstract
This study critically assessed the influence of frequent availability of water i. e. drip irrigation and mulch on optimum leaf area development of potato that control light interception and soil moisture conservation. Crop growth was stimulated in terms of early pick up of leaf areas that quickly covered the ground and improved transpiration efficiency. Drip irrigation increased water use efficiency three times as compared with furrow irrigation (conventional method of irrigation). Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm) conserved soil moisture, raised soil temperature by 9oC, stimulated shoot, solon and root growth, increased the total tuber number and yield but reduced the grade of tubers. Drip irrigation may prove a viable tool for source-sink alteration; stimulating early stolon initiation combined with ability to quick ground cover and sustained leaf growth for new tuber initiation for seed production as well as extended tuber bulking of early formed tubers for obtaining maximum yield with 50% saving of irrigation water and efficient use of nitrogen fertilizer.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record; open copy licensed cc-by. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation and mulch stimulated early leaf area development and transpiration efficiency.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- drip irrigation and mulche0
- Outcome
- early pick up of leaf arease1
- Direction
- stimulatede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“frequent availability of water i. e. drip irrigation and mulch”
e1“Crop growth was stimulated in terms of early pick up of leaf areas that quickly covered the ground and improved transpiration efficiency”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation tripled potato water use efficiency compared with furrow irrigation.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Drip irrigatione0
- Outcome
- water use efficiencye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- three timese0
- Comparator
- furrow irrigatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Drip irrigation increased water use efficiency three times as compared with furrow irrigation”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch conserved soil moisture in potato cultivation.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)e0
- Outcome
- soil moisturee0
- Direction
- conservede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm) conserved soil moisture”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch raised soil temperature by 9oC.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)e0
- Outcome
- soil temperaturee0
- Direction
- raisede0
- Value
- 9oCe0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm) conserved soil moisture, raised soil temperature by 9oC”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch stimulated potato shoot, solon and root growth.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)e0
- Outcome
- shoot, solon and root growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm) conserved soil moisture, raised soil temperature by 9oC, stimulated shoot, solon and root growth”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch increased total tuber number and yield.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)e1
- Outcome
- total tuber number and yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increased the total tuber number and yield”
e1“Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polyethylene mulch reduced potato tuber grade.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)e1
- Outcome
- grade of tuberse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“reduced the grade of tubers”
e1“Black Polyethylene mulch (25µm)”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose drip irrigation for seed and maximum yield production with water savings.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Outcome
- Drip irrigation may prove a viable toole0
- Value
- 50%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Drip irrigation may prove a viable tool for source-sink alteration; stimulating early stolon initiation combined with ability to quick ground cover and sustained leaf growth for new tuber initiation for seed production as well as extended tuber bulking of early formed tubers for obtaining maximum yield with 50% saving of irrigation water and efficient use of nitrogen fertilizer”
t0“Potato”
The same questions in other papers
mulching · yield · Solanum tuberosum (potato)Results differ
56 papers in the same direction as this paper · 7 in the opposite direction
- positive
- no effect
- no effect
60 papers more in this group
See all 64 papers →irrigation · physiology: water · Solanum tuberosum (potato)Positive and negative results
20 papers in the same direction as this paper · 3 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- positive
- negative
- no effect
21 papers more in this group
See all 25 papers →mulching · growth · Solanum tuberosum (potato)Positive and negative results
25 papers in the same direction as this paper · 3 in the opposite direction
- positive
- no effect
- negative
25 papers more in this group
See all 29 papers →mulching · soil: physics · Solanum tuberosum (potato)Results agree
15 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
12 papers more in this group
See all 16 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.