Abstract
Water use efficiency in agriculture can be enhanced by several strategies mainly by reducing evaporation from the soil surface. The mulching techniques were being used widely in irrigated crop production worldwide. The mulching techniques can be also implemented in summer vegetables production under rain-fed conditions. The current study aimed at evaluating the effect of polyethylene black plastic mulch on growth and yield of okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L. under rain-fed conditions of Jordan. Two field experiments were conducted during summer growing season at Al-Rabbah Agricultural Research Station, Mu'tah University, Jordan. Soil cover treatments were polyethylene black plastic mulch and no mulch (bare soil). The results indicated that the mulched plots had higher soil moisture content than bare soil plots, which has positively reflected on vegetative and yield parameters. Using polyethylene plastic mulch had pronounced positive effect on yield of okra and squash as compared to bare soil. Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch. In addition, fruit number and weight had also an increasing trend as fruit yield. Plots covered with black plastic mulch were produced higher fresh and dry weights of both vegetable crops. It ban be concluded that using black plastic mulch as a soil cover increased okra and squash vegetative growth and yield under rain-fed conditions.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in okra relative to bare soil.
- Taxon
- okra
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Abelmoschus esculentuse1 - Treatment
- plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- Early, middle, late and total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soile2
- Setting
- rain-fed conditionst0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in summer squash relative to bare soil.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in okra relative to bare soil.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentuse1
- Treatment
- plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- Early, middle, late and total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soile2
- Setting
- rain-fed conditionst0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in summer squash relative to bare soil.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in okra relative to bare soil.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentuse1
- Treatment
- plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- Early, middle, late and total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soile2
- Setting
- rain-fed conditionst0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased Early, middle, late and total yield in summer squash relative to bare soil.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased total yield in okra relative to bare soil.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentuse1
- Treatment
- plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soile2
- Setting
- rain-fed conditionst0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased total yield in summer squash relative to bare soil.
Verbatim
e0“Early, middle, late and total yield of both vegetable crops were significantly increased in plots covered with plastic mulch”
t0“rain-fed conditions”
e1“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e2“bare soil plots”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulched plots had higher soil moisture than bare soil.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- mulched plotse0
- Outcome
- soil moisture contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- bare soil plotse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the mulched plots had higher soil moisture content than bare soil plots”
t0“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch increased fruit number and weight in both crops.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- plastic mulche1
- Outcome
- fruit number and weighte0
- Direction
- increasinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit number and weight had also an increasing trend as fruit yield”
t0“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
e1“Using polyethylene plastic mulch had pronounced positive effect on yield of okra and squash as compared to bare soil.”
Claim · model-written summary
Black mulch increased fresh and dry weights of both crops.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- black plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weightse0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plots covered with black plastic mulch were produced higher fresh and dry weights of both vegetable crops”
t0“okra, Abelmoschus esculentus and summer squash, Cucurbita pepo L.”
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