Abstract
Colored plastic mulches were evaluated for their effect on the production of a triploid (`Honeyheart') and a diploid (`Sangria') watermelon cultivar during the spring growing season. Colored mulches affected cucumber beetle populations; the SRM-Red (Selective Reflective Mulch) and yellow plastic mulch plots had among the highest cucumber beetle populations recorded in both cultivars while the silver-reflective and the silver-on-black plastic mulches had among the lowest. In general, most mulched plots had longer vines than the bare-ground treatment, with few differences in vine length among treatments by 4 weeks. There were no differences among mulch treatments in first and total `Honeyheart' harvest while the IRT-100 (infrared transmitting; green), PST (photosynthetic reduced transmitting), and silver-on-black plastic mulches had the highest first `Sangria' harvest and among the highest total `Sangria' harvest. Plants in plastic mulch treatments had higher yields as a result of higher fruit number per area. Fruit weight, length, and diameter and total soluble solids for both cultivars were not affected by colored plastic mulch treatments.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Red and yellow mulch plots had among the highest cucumber beetle populations in both watermelon cultivars.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- SRM-Red (Selective Reflective Mulch) and yellow plastic mulche0
- Interactor
- cucumber beetlee0pest
- Outcome
- cucumber beetle populationse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the SRM-Red (Selective Reflective Mulch) and yellow plastic mulch plots had among the highest cucumber beetle populations recorded in both cultivars”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Silver reflective and silver on black mulches had among the lowest cucumber beetle populations.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- silver-reflective and the silver-on-black plastic mulchese0
- Interactor
- cucumber beetlee1pest
- Outcome
- cucumber beetle populationse1
- Direction
- loweste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the silver-reflective and the silver-on-black plastic mulches had among the lowest”
e1“highest cucumber beetle populations recorded in both cultivars”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Most mulch plots had longer watermelon vines than bare ground.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- mulched plotse0
- Outcome
- vinese0
- Direction
- longere0
- Comparator
- bare-ground treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“most mulched plots had longer vines than the bare-ground treatment”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Vine length differed little among mulch treatments by four weeks.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- treatmentse0
- Outcome
- vine lengthe0
- Qualifier
- by 4 weekse0
- Comparator
- treatmentse0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“few differences in vine length among treatments by 4 weeks”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Honeyheart first and total harvest did not differ among mulch treatments.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- Honeyhearte0
- Treatment
- mulch treatmentse0
- Outcome
- first and total `Honeyheart' harveste0
- Direction
- no differencese0
- Comparator
- mulch treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There were no differences among mulch treatments in first and total `Honeyheart' harvest”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
IRT-100, PST and silver on black mulch had the highest first Sangria harvest.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- Sangriae0
- Treatment
- IRT-100 (infrared transmitting; green), PST (photosynthetic reduced transmitting), and silver-on-black plastic mulchese0
- Outcome
- first `Sangria' harveste0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the IRT-100 (infrared transmitting; green), PST (photosynthetic reduced transmitting), and silver-on-black plastic mulches had the highest first `Sangria' harvest”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
The same three mulches had among the highest total Sangria harvest.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- Sangriae0
- Treatment
- IRT-100 (infrared transmitting; green), PST (photosynthetic reduced transmitting), and silver-on-black plastic mulchese0
- Outcome
- total `Sangria' harveste0
- Direction
- among the higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the IRT-100 (infrared transmitting; green), PST (photosynthetic reduced transmitting), and silver-on-black plastic mulches had the highest first `Sangria' harvest and among the highest total `Sangria' harvest”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased watermelon yield.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- plastic mulch treatmentse0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants in plastic mulch treatments had higher yields”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased fruit number per area.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- plastic mulch treatmentse1
- Outcome
- fruit number per areae0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“higher fruit number per area”
e1“Plants in plastic mulch treatments had higher yields”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Colored mulch did not affect fruit weight, length or diameter in either cultivar.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- colored plastic mulch treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Fruit weight, length, and diametere0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit weight, length, and diameter and total soluble solids for both cultivars were not affected by colored plastic mulch treatments”
t0“Watermelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Colored mulch did not affect total soluble solids in either cultivar.
- Taxon
- WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- colored plastic mulch treatmentse0
- Outcome
- total soluble solidse0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“total soluble solids for both cultivars were not affected by colored plastic mulch treatments”
t0“Watermelon”
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