Abstract
Soil-hilling around grapevines is required in the eastern United States for winter protection of grafted and cold sensitive grape cultivars (Vitis vinifera). The effects of simazine-treated mulches (STM) on soil temperature, scion rooting, and soil water conservation were measured. Neither simazine nor interactions between simazine and mulches affected any variables measured in this study. Wood and straw mulches increased the minimum temperature of media around the graft union as effectively as hilled soil, reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil-hilling, and increased soil moisture content 45 to 75% at Wooster and 8 to 23% at Kingsville. These results indicate that mulches have positive attributes and should be considered as an alternative to traditional soil-hilling in vineyards for temperature mitigation around graft union.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Simazine and its interactions with mulches did not affect measured variables.
VitisNot reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Neither simazine nor interactions between simazine and mulches affected any variables measured in this study.”
t0“Grapevines”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood and straw mulches raised graft-zone minimum temperature as effectively as hilled soil.
- Treatment
- Wood and straw mulchese0
- Outcome
- minimum temperature of media around the graft unione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- hilled soile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Wood and straw mulches increased the minimum temperature of media around the graft union as effectively as hilled soil, reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil-hilling, and increased soil moisture content 45 to 75% at Wooster and 8 to 23% at Kingsville.”
t0“Grapevines”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood and straw mulches reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil hilling.
- Treatment
- Wood and straw mulchese0
- Outcome
- scion rootinge0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- a factor of 2 to 75e0
- Comparator
- soil-hillinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Wood and straw mulches increased the minimum temperature of media around the graft union as effectively as hilled soil, reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil-hilling, and increased soil moisture content 45 to 75% at Wooster and 8 to 23% at Kingsville.”
t0“Grapevines”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood and straw mulches increased soil moisture by 45 to 75% at Wooster.
- Treatment
- Wood and straw mulchese0
- Outcome
- soil moisture contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 45 to 75%e0
- Comparator
- soil-hillinge0
- Setting
- Woostere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Wood and straw mulches increased the minimum temperature of media around the graft union as effectively as hilled soil, reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil-hilling, and increased soil moisture content 45 to 75% at Wooster and 8 to 23% at Kingsville.”
t0“Grapevines”
Claim · model-written summary
Wood and straw mulches increased soil moisture by 8 to 23% at Kingsville.
- Treatment
- Wood and straw mulchese0
- Outcome
- soil moisture contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 8 to 23%e0
- Comparator
- soil-hillinge0
- Setting
- Kingsvillee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Wood and straw mulches increased the minimum temperature of media around the graft union as effectively as hilled soil, reduced scion rooting by a factor of 2 to 75 compared with soil-hilling, and increased soil moisture content 45 to 75% at Wooster and 8 to 23% at Kingsville.”
t0“Grapevines”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulches should be considered as an alternative to soil hilling in vineyards.
- Outcome
- mulches have positive attributes and should be considered as an alternative to traditional soil-hilling in vineyards for temperature mitigation around graft unione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These results indicate that mulches have positive attributes and should be considered as an alternative to traditional soil-hilling in vineyards for temperature mitigation around graft union.”
t0“Grapevines”
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