Abstract
In this study we evaluated the effects of two different types of mulches (black mulch, silver/black) on weed control and yield in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) production. Field studies were carried out during 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. The treatments consisted in the study were planting methods (raised bed/flat bed), polythene mulching applications (black mulch, silver/black and unmulched plots) and training systems (two stem and three stem). Tomato seedlings were transplanted in the plots, where mulch application had already been done prior transplanting.The results indicated thatmarketable tomato yield from the treatments consisting of black mulch, was higher compared to the other unmulched plots for both the years of study. In unmulched plots there was reduction of tomato yield. Mulch treatments reduced the number of weeds, weed intensity, and above ground biomass (fresh weight and dry weight of weeds) as compared to control plots. At tomato harvest weeds were well suppressed by black mulch above the entire where black mulches have been used. In mulch plots there was consistent reduction in weed intensity also. The black mulch seems to be a suitable for assuring an effective weed suppression and high yield in tomato grown in raised beds compared to the plants grown on flat beds without using any mulch material.
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Claim · model-written summary
Marketable tomato yield with black mulch was higher than in unmulched plots in both study years.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- black mulche1
- Outcome
- marketable tomato yielde1
- Direction
- highere1
- Qualifier
- for both the years of studye1
- Comparator
- unmulched plotse1
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Verbatim
e1“marketable tomato yield from the treatments consisting of black mulch, was higher compared to the other unmulched plots for both the years of study”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch treatments reduced weed number, weed intensity and above ground weed biomass compared with control plots in tomato.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Mulch treatmentse1
- Interactor
- weedse1weed
- Outcome
- number of weeds, weed intensity, and above ground biomasse1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Comparator
- control plotse1
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Verbatim
t0“Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
e1“Mulch treatments reduced the number of weeds, weed intensity, and above ground biomass (fresh weight and dry weight of weeds) as compared to control plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Black mulch is suitable for effective weed suppression and high yield in tomato grown in raised beds, compared with flat beds without mulch.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- black mulche1
- Interactor
- weede1weed
- Outcome
- effective weed suppression and high yielde1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The black mulch seems to be a suitable for assuring an effective weed suppression and high yield in tomato grown in raised beds compared to the plants grown on flat beds without using any mulch material”
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