Abstract
The incidence of leaf diseases is one of the main factors limiting the tomato crop production, increasing the production cost due to excessive pesticide application. The basal leaf removal could reduce inoculum sources, disease severity and contribute to reducing the use of pesticide. Aiming to evaluate the efficiency of this practice on the reduction of tomato leaf diseases and the effect in the quality and in the productivity of the tomato plants for in natura consumption, two experiments were carried out to test four levels of basal leaf removal. Basal leaves removal, at fruit harvesting, is efficient in reducing the infected plant area by disease, what can mean smaller disease severity and least inoculum source in the field. Also, the all basal leaf removal does not affect yield and quality of the tomato fruits. Other studies are necessary to evaluate the effect of adopting this practice in different planting dates, spacing, varieties, successive plantings and the financial viability of adopting this practice.
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Claim · model-written summary
Removing basal leaves at fruit harvest reduced infected plant area.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- fruit harvestinge0
- Treatment
- Basal leaves removale0
- Outcome
- infected plant area by diseasee0
- Direction
- reducinge0
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e0“Basal leaves removal, at fruit harvesting, is efficient in reducing the infected plant area by disease”
t0“tomato plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing all basal leaves did not affect tomato fruit yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- all basal leaf removale0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- does not affecte0
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Verbatim
e0“all basal leaf removal does not affect yield and quality of the tomato fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing all basal leaves did not affect tomato fruit quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- all basal leaf removale0
- Outcome
- quality of the tomato fruitse0
- Direction
- does not affecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all basal leaf removal does not affect yield and quality of the tomato fruits”
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