Abstract
Biotype B of the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci(Genn.) is a major economic pest of tomatoes, Solanum lycopersicum(L.) in southern Florida. Most economic damage occurs through the transmission of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV) on tomato. Ultraviolet light reflective (metalized) polyethylene mulch was evaluated as an alternative method to insecticides for managing whitefly adults and TYLCV. In studies conducted in the spring seasons of 2005 and 2006, whitefly adult abundance and incidence of plants with symptoms of TYLCV infection were compared for tomato plants grown on raised beds covered with a metalized mulch, a black mulch, or a white on black virtually impermeable film mulch. The numbers of whitefly adults did not always differ statistically on specific sampling dates on plants grown on the different mulches; however, the cumulative numbers of adults over sampling dates did. A lower percentage of tomato plants grown on metalized mulch had symptoms of TYLCV infection compared to tomato plants grown on black or white mulch film in 2005 and to plants grown on white mulch in 2006. Using metalized mulch can contribute to management of whitefly adults and TYLCV.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Cumulative whitefly adult numbers differed among mulch treatments across sampling dates.
- Outcome
- cumulative numbers of adultse0
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e0“the cumulative numbers of adults over sampling dates did”
Claim · model-written summary
On specific sampling dates, whitefly adult numbers did not always differ statistically among mulches.
- Treatment
- different mulchese0
- Interactor
- whiteflye0pest
- Outcome
- numbers of whitefly adultse0
- Direction
- did not always differe0
Not reportedTaxonComparator
Verbatim
e0“The numbers of whitefly adults did not always differ statistically on specific sampling dates on plants grown on the different mulches”
Claim · model-written summary
Metalized mulch lowered the percentage of tomato plants with TYLCV symptoms relative to black or white mulch film in 2005.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- metalized mulche0
- Interactor
- TYLCVTomato yellow leaf curl viruse0pathogen
- Outcome
- percentage of tomato plants grown on metalized mulch had symptoms of TYLCV infectione0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- black or white mulch filme0
Not reportedSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A lower percentage of tomato plants grown on metalized mulch had symptoms of TYLCV infection compared to tomato plants grown on black or white mulch film in 2005”
Claim · model-written summary
Metalized mulch lowered the percentage of tomato plants with TYLCV symptoms relative to white mulch in 2006.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- metalized mulche0
- Interactor
- TYLCVTomato yellow leaf curl viruse0pathogen
- Outcome
- percentage of tomato plants grown on metalized mulch had symptoms of TYLCV infectione0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- white mulche0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A lower percentage of tomato plants grown on metalized mulch had symptoms of TYLCV infection compared to tomato plants grown on black or white mulch film in 2005 and to plants grown on white mulch in 2006”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that metalized mulch can help manage whitefly adults and TYLCV.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- metalized mulche0
- Interactor
- whiteflye0pest
- Second interactor
- TYLCVTomato yellow leaf curl viruse0pathogen
- Outcome
- management of whitefly adults and TYLCVe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Using metalized mulch can contribute to management of whitefly adults and TYLCV”
t0“Tomato Plants”
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