Abstract
Abstract Field studies were conducted to determine the effect of black plastic mulch with and without irrigation on soil temperature, plant growth, cotton yields, fiber quality, water use, and weed control. All plots received an annual application of 360, 92, and 250 pounds per acre of N, P, and K, respectively. Plastic mulch increased seed cotton yields by 650 to 975 pounds per acre with or without irrigation and significantly increased the amount of cotton harvested early. Irrigation, however, increased yields of seed cotton by more than 1,600 pounds per acre with or without plastic mulch. Plastic mulch reduced rate of soil moisture loss, increased early season minimum soil temperature, accelerated early growth and fruiting of plants, and gave satisfactory weed control without cultivation.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased seed cotton yield by 650 to 975 pounds per acre with or without irrigation.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- Plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- seed cotton yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 650 to 975 pounds per acree0
- Qualifier
- with or without irrigatione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plastic mulch increased seed cotton yields by 650 to 975 pounds per acre with or without irrigation”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch significantly increased the amount of cotton harvested early.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- Plastic mulcht0
- Outcome
- amount of cotton harvested earlye0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“significantly increased the amount of cotton harvested early.”
t0“Black Plastic Mulch and Irrigation”
Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation increased seed cotton yield by more than 1,600 pounds per acre with or without mulch.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- Irrigatione0
- Outcome
- yields of seed cottone0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- more than 1,600 pounds per acree0
- Qualifier
- with or without plastic mulche0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Irrigation, however, increased yields of seed cotton by more than 1,600 pounds per acre with or without plastic mulch.”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch reduced the rate of soil moisture loss.
Not reportedTaxonComparator
Verbatim
e0“Plastic mulch reduced rate of soil moisture loss”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased early-season minimum soil temperature.
Not reportedTaxonComparator
Verbatim
e0“increased early season minimum soil temperature”
t0“Black Plastic Mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch accelerated early plant growth and fruiting.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Black Plastic Mulcht0
- Outcome
- early growth and fruiting of plantse0
- Direction
- acceleratede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“accelerated early growth and fruiting of plants”
t0“Cotton Responses to Black Plastic Mulch”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch gave satisfactory weed control without cultivation.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Black Plastic Mulcht0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed controle0
- Direction
- satisfactorye0
- Qualifier
- without cultivatione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“gave satisfactory weed control without cultivation.”
t0“Cotton Responses to Black Plastic Mulch”
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