Abstract
The late-season period in the humid tropics is characterized by drought and the production of crops such as tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum L.), okra ( Abelmoschus esculentum ), pepper ( Capsicum spp.) and leafy vegetables depends upon the utilization of stored soil water. The efficient use of stored soil moisture ensures maximum plant adaptation and yield stability. The growth, development and yield of tomato grown on mulched and unmulched hand-hoed, raised beds and ridged sandy loam soil during the late cropping seasons of 1994, 1995 and 1996 in Akure, Nigeria was investigated. Hand-hoeing reduced soil temperature and conserved more soil moisture than ridging or the raised bed while grass mulch improved soil temperature and soil moisture regime compared with bare ground. Root biomass and root/shoot ratio increased in the order ridging, raised bed and hand-hoeing while shoot biomass, leaf area/plant and percentage fruit set decreased in the order raised bed, ridging and hand-hoeing. Number of fruit and fruit yield/plant produced by raised beds were significantly higher than those produced by ridging and hand-hoeing. Mulch ameliorated the hydrothermal regime of the soil, improved the vegetative and flowering performance and significantly increased the fruit yield of tomato over bare ground.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
Hand-hoeing reduced soil temperature relative to ridging or raised beds.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Hand-hoeinge0
- Outcome
- soil temperaturee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- ridging or the raised bede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Hand-hoeing reduced soil temperature and conserved more soil moisture than ridging or the raised bed”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Hand-hoeing conserved more soil moisture than ridging or raised beds.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Hand-hoeinge0
- Outcome
- soil moisturee0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- ridging or the raised bede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Hand-hoeing reduced soil temperature and conserved more soil moisture than ridging or the raised bed”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Grass mulch improved the soil temperature and moisture regime relative to bare ground.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- grass mulche0
- Outcome
- soil temperature and soil moisture regimee0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- bare grounde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“grass mulch improved soil temperature and soil moisture regime compared with bare ground”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Root biomass and root/shoot ratio ranked ridging, raised bed, then hand-hoeing.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hand-hoeinge0
- Outcome
- Root biomass and root/shoot ratioe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- ridging, raised bede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Root biomass and root/shoot ratio increased in the order ridging, raised bed and hand-hoeing”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Shoot biomass, leaf area and fruit set ranked raised bed, ridging, then hand-hoeing.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hand-hoeinge0
- Outcome
- shoot biomass, leaf area/plant and percentage fruit sete0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Comparator
- raised bed, ridginge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“shoot biomass, leaf area/plant and percentage fruit set decreased in the order raised bed, ridging and hand-hoeing”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Raised beds produced significantly more fruit than ridging and hand-hoeing.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- raised bedse0
- Outcome
- Number of fruite0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- ridging and hand-hoeinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Number of fruit and fruit yield/plant produced by raised beds were significantly higher than those produced by ridging and hand-hoeing”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Raised beds produced significantly higher fruit yield per plant than ridging and hand-hoeing.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- raised bedse0
- Outcome
- fruit yield/plante0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- ridging and hand-hoeinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Number of fruit and fruit yield/plant produced by raised beds were significantly higher than those produced by ridging and hand-hoeing”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch improved soil hydrothermal conditions relative to bare ground.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Mulche0
- Outcome
- hydrothermal regime of the soile0
- Direction
- amelioratede0
- Comparator
- bare grounde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulch ameliorated the hydrothermal regime of the soil, improved the vegetative and flowering performance and significantly increased the fruit yield of tomato over bare ground”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch improved vegetative and flowering performance relative to bare ground.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Mulche0
- Outcome
- vegetative and flowering performancee0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- bare grounde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulch ameliorated the hydrothermal regime of the soil, improved the vegetative and flowering performance and significantly increased the fruit yield of tomato over bare ground”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulch significantly increased tomato fruit yield relative to bare ground.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Mulche0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare grounde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulch ameliorated the hydrothermal regime of the soil, improved the vegetative and flowering performance and significantly increased the fruit yield of tomato over bare ground”
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