Abstract
Aluminum foil mulches which covered 95% or 50% of the soil surface in small plots caused a significant (P=0.05) reduction in number of buckhorn aphids. A phis nasturtii Kaltenbach or potato aphids, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) on ‘Kalahdin’ potatoes on only 2 occasions in 5 years of tests at Presque Isle, Maine. These differences were of short duration and were not meaningful. No reduction occurred in number of green peach aphids, Myzus persicae (Sulzer). Mulching had no deleterious effect upon growth or yield of potatoes.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum foil mulches covering 95% or 50% of the soil surface significantly reduced buckhorn aphid numbers in small plots.
- Taxon
- Potatoes
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- Aluminum foil mulchese1
- Interactor
- buckhorn aphidse1pest
- Outcome
- number of buckhorn aphidse1
- Direction
- reductione1
- Setting
- small plotse1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Aluminum foil mulches which covered 95% or 50% of the soil surface in small plots caused a significant (P=0.05) reduction in number of buckhorn aphids”
t0“Potatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Aluminum foil mulches did not reduce green peach aphid numbers on potatoes.
- Taxon
- PotatoesSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Aluminum foil mulchese1
- Interactor
- Myzus persicae
Myzus persicaee2pest - Outcome
- number of green peach aphidse2
- Direction
- No reductione2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“No reduction occurred in number of green peach aphids, Myzus persicae (Sulzer)”
e1“Aluminum foil mulches which covered 95% or 50% of the soil surface in small plots caused a significant (P=0.05) reduction in number of buckhorn aphids”
t0“Potatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching had no deleterious effect on the growth or yield of potatoes.
- Taxon
- PotatoesSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge4
- Outcome
- growth or yielde4
- Direction
- no deleterious effecte4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“Mulching had no deleterious effect upon growth or yield of potatoes”
t0“Potatoes”
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