Abstract
ABSTRACT Organic vegetable transplants are produced in Israel in ‘Speedling’ trays. The commercial growth medium consists of a mixture of peat moss and vermiculite (PV). Commercially grown transplants frequently exhibit non-uniform quality. Growers experience unacceptable mortality rates during the first weeks after transplanting. Substituting part of the peat moss with compost, based on the coarse fraction of cattle manure (CPV), caused a significant improvement of the growth rate of the seedlings in the nursery. Improved parameters included fresh and dry weight of the seedlings. Possible reasons for improved growth are discussed. After transplanting to the field, CPV-grown cabbage transplants exhibited lower mortality rates caused by Pythium ciphcinidermatum than PV- transplants. The yield of CPV-transplants at harvest weighed more than that of the PV-transplants although non-infested control plants yielded similarly to those grown in compost-containing media. The effect on processing tomato transplants was different. Although all plants survived, the superiority of the CPV-transplants manifested itself at harvest in terms of higher yields. Compost suppressed infestation of sweet basil plants by inoculum of Fusarium oxisporum f. basilici. Under identical condition, Fusarium caused severe growth inhibition and even death of peat-grown plants.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Compost medium significantly improved vegetable seedling growth rate in the nursery.
- Taxon
- vegetablee1
- Treatment
- Substituting part of the peat moss with composte0
- Outcome
- growth rate of the seedlingse0
- Direction
- improvemente0
- Setting
- nurserye0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Substituting part of the peat moss with compost, based on the coarse fraction of cattle manure (CPV), caused a significant improvement of the growth rate of the seedlings in the nursery”
e1“Organic vegetable transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
Compost medium improved seedling fresh and dry weight.
- Taxon
- vegetablee2
- Treatment
- Substituting part of the peat moss with composte1
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weight of the seedlingse0
- Direction
- Improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Improved parameters included fresh and dry weight of the seedlings”
e1“Substituting part of the peat moss with compost”
e2“Organic vegetable transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
Cabbage transplants grown in compost medium had lower Pythium related mortality than PV transplants.
- Taxon
- cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. capitatae0 - Treatment
- CPV-growne0
- Interactor
- Pythium ciphcinidermatume0pathogen
- Outcome
- mortality rates caused by Pythium ciphcinidermatume0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- PV- transplantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“CPV-grown cabbage transplants exhibited lower mortality rates caused by Pythium ciphcinidermatum than PV- transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
CPV transplants yielded more at harvest than PV transplants.
- Taxon
- cabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae1
- Treatment
- CPV-transplantse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- PV-transplantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The yield of CPV-transplants at harvest weighed more than that of the PV-transplants”
e1“CPV-grown cabbage transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
Noninfested control plants yielded similarly to compost grown plants.
- Taxon
- cabbageBrassica oleracea var. capitatae1
- Outcome
- yieldede0
- Direction
- similarlye0
- Comparator
- those grown in compost-containing mediae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“non-infested control plants yielded similarly to those grown in compost-containing media”
e1“cabbage transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
All processing tomato transplants survived.
Verbatim
e0“The effect on processing tomato transplants was different. Although all plants survived”
Claim · model-written summary
Compost medium increased processing tomato yield at harvest.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“the superiority of the CPV-transplants manifested itself at harvest in terms of higher yields”
e1“processing tomato transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
Compost suppressed Fusarium infestation in sweet basil.
- Taxon
- sweet basil
Ocimum basilicume0 - Treatment
- Composte0
- Interactor
- Fusarium oxisporum f. basilicie0pathogen
- Outcome
- infestation of sweet basil plants by inoculum of Fusarium oxisporum f. basilicie0
- Direction
- suppressede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Compost suppressed infestation of sweet basil plants by inoculum of Fusarium oxisporum f. basilici”
Claim · model-written summary
Fusarium caused severe growth inhibition and death of peat grown sweet basil.
- Taxon
- sweet basilOcimum basilicume1
- Interactor
- Fusarium oxisporum f. basilicie2pathogen
- Outcome
- severe growth inhibition and even death of peat-grown plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fusarium caused severe growth inhibition and even death of peat-grown plants”
e1“sweet basil plants”
e2“Fusarium oxisporum f. basilici”
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