Abstract
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most important vegetable crops in India. It is quite popular amongst small and medium-scale commercial farmers due to high net returns. In India, weeds are the major limiting factor affecting the productivity. Based on this, a field experiment was carried out during three consecutive seasons during 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 at Agriculture Experimental Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Paria, Gujarat, India to evaluate the effect of weed control in tomato through mulching and herbicides under drip irrigation conditions. Treatments included different types of color plastic mulch, paddy straw mulch, two pre and postemergence herbicides, weed free and unwedded control. The results showed that significant difference was observed among all the tested treatments in the terms of weed population, plant height, fruits per plant, and yield. Least dry weight of weeds was recorded in the plots treated with black polythene mulch 50μ (125.7 g/m2) followed by red polythene mulch and weed free treatment (134.8 g/m2). Whereas maximum dry weight of weed was observed in unwedded plot (201.3g/m2). Black polythene mulch (50μ) and weed free treatment gave least number of species wise weed count (monocot, dicot and sedges). The maximum plant height, number of fruits per plant and yield was recorded in the black plastic mulch (69.0 cm, 70.52,4.45 kg/plant) followed by silver polythene mulch (66.28 cm, 67.74 number of fruits/plant and 4.28 kg/plant). Thus, black plastic mulch 50μ to be most effective in terms of weed suppression and yield enhancement of tomato crop and must be encouraged for weed management strategies.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Treatments differed significantly in weed population, plant height, fruits per plant and yield.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed population, plant height, fruits per plant, and yielde0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“significant difference was observed among all the tested treatments in the terms of weed population, plant height, fruits per plant, and yield.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polythene mulch gave the lowest weed dry weight, 125.7 g/m2.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black polythene mulch 50μe0
- Interactor
- weedse0weed
- Outcome
- dry weight of weedse0
- Direction
- Leaste0
- Value
- 125.7 g/m2e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Least dry weight of weeds was recorded in the plots treated with black polythene mulch 50μ (125.7 g/m2)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Red polythene mulch or weed-free treatment followed black mulch for weed dry weight at 134.8 g/m2.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Interactor
- weedse1weed
- Outcome
- dry weight of weedse1
- Value
- 134.8 g/m2e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“followed by red polythene mulch and weed free treatment (134.8 g/m2)”
e1“dry weight of weeds”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Unweeded plots had the highest weed dry weight at 201.3g/m2.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- dry weight of weede0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 201.3g/m2e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maximum dry weight of weed was observed in unwedded plot (201.3g/m2).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black mulch and weed-free treatment minimized monocot, dicot and sedge counts.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Black polythene mulch (50μ)e0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- species wise weed count (monocot, dicot and sedges)e0
- Direction
- leaste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black polythene mulch (50μ) and weed free treatment gave least number of species wise weed count (monocot, dicot and sedges).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch gave maximum tomato height of 69.0 cm.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 69.0 cme0
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Verbatim
e0“The maximum plant height, number of fruits per plant and yield was recorded in the black plastic mulch (69.0 cm, 70.52,4.45 kg/plant)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch gave maximum fruits per plant of 70.52.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plante0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 70.52e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The maximum plant height, number of fruits per plant and yield was recorded in the black plastic mulch (69.0 cm, 70.52,4.45 kg/plant)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch gave maximum yield of 4.45 kg/plant.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 4.45 kg/plante0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The maximum plant height, number of fruits per plant and yield was recorded in the black plastic mulch (69.0 cm, 70.52,4.45 kg/plant)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Silver mulch followed black mulch with 66.28 cm plant height.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- silver polythene mulche0
- Outcome
- plant heighte1
- Value
- 66.28 cme0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“followed by silver polythene mulch (66.28 cm, 67.74 number of fruits/plant and 4.28 kg/plant)”
e1“The maximum plant height”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Silver mulch produced 67.74 fruits per plant.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- silver polythene mulche0
- Outcome
- number of fruits/plante0
- Value
- 67.74 number of fruits/plante0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“silver polythene mulch (66.28 cm, 67.74 number of fruits/plant and 4.28 kg/plant)”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend black plastic mulch 50μ for weed suppression and tomato yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulch 50μe0
- Outcome
- weed management strategiese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black plastic mulch 50μ to be most effective in terms of weed suppression and yield enhancement of tomato crop and must be encouraged for weed management strategies.”
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