Abstract
The current study investigated the impact of reflective mulch on yield of strawberry plants and incidence of damage by tarnished plant bugs, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), for three strawberry cultivars: 'Honeoye', 'Earliglow', and two sibling Dayneutrals ('Tribute' and 'Tristar', herein considered as one cultivar). Of all cultivars tested, Honeoye was the most productive and least susceptible to tarnished plant bug. For Earliglow and Honeoye, reflective mulch enhanced productivity of strawberry plants and suppressed density of nymphs per flower cluster and proportion of damaged fruits, but did not significantly impact numbers of nymphs or damaged fruits per hectare, Results with Dayneutrals were not consistently significant. Both in the presence or absence of reflective mulch, proportion of damaged fruits increased with increasing density of nymphs per flower cluster and with decreasing number of fruits harvested per row section, suggesting that planting productive strawberry cultivars or maintaining cultural practices that promote high yield may provide an effective line of defense against tarnished plant bug. These results also suggest that reflective mulch may suppress incidence of damage by tarnished plant bug both directly, by reducing number of nymphs per flower cluster, and indirectly, by enhancing productivity of strawberry plants. Economic analyses evaluating costs and benefits of using reflective mulch, as well as studies investigating mechanisms that underlie the impact of reflective mulch on yield and incidence of damage by tarnished plant bug, are still needed before reflective mulch can be implemented as a management strategy in commercial strawberry fields.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Honeoye was the most productive and least susceptible to tarnished plant bug among the cultivars tested.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassat0 - Material
- Honeoyee1
- Interactor
- tarnished plant bug
Lygus lineolarise1pest - Outcome
- most productive and least susceptiblee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
t0“Strawberry Plants”
e1“Of all cultivars tested, Honeoye was the most productive and least susceptible to tarnished plant bug”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch enhanced productivity of Earliglow and Honeoye strawberry plants.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassae1
- Material
- Earliglow and Honeoyee1
- Treatment
- reflective mulche1
- Outcome
- productivity of strawberry plantse1
- Direction
- enhancede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“For Earliglow and Honeoye, reflective mulch enhanced productivity of strawberry plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch suppressed the density of nymphs per flower cluster and the proportion of damaged fruits in Earliglow and Honeoye.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassae1
- Material
- Earliglow and Honeoyee1
- Treatment
- reflective mulche1
- Interactor
- tarnished plant bugLygus lineolarist1pest
- Outcome
- density of nymphs per flower cluster and proportion of damaged fruitse1
- Direction
- suppressede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t1“Tarnished Plant Bug”
e1“For Earliglow and Honeoye, reflective mulch enhanced productivity of strawberry plants and suppressed density of nymphs per flower cluster and proportion of damaged fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch did not significantly affect the number of nymphs or damaged fruits per hectare in Earliglow and Honeoye.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassae1
- Material
- Earliglow and Honeoyee1
- Treatment
- reflective mulche1
- Outcome
- numbers of nymphs or damaged fruits per hectaree1
- Direction
- did not significantly impacte1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“For Earliglow and Honeoye, reflective mulch enhanced productivity of strawberry plants and suppressed density of nymphs per flower cluster and proportion of damaged fruits, but did not significantly impact numbers of nymphs or damaged fruits per hectare”
Claim · model-written summary
Results with Dayneutral cultivars were not consistently significant.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
- Material
- Dayneutralse2
- Outcome
- Results with Dayneutralse2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Strawberry Plants”
e2“Results with Dayneutrals were not consistently significant”
Claim · model-written summary
Proportion of damaged fruits increased with increasing density of nymphs per flower cluster, with or without reflective mulch.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
- Treatment
- increasing density of nymphs per flower clustere1
- Interactor
- tarnished plant bugLygus lineolarist1pest
- Outcome
- proportion of damaged fruitse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Setting
- presence or absence of reflective mulche1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Strawberry Plants”
t1“Tarnished Plant Bug”
e1“Both in the presence or absence of reflective mulch, proportion of damaged fruits increased with increasing density of nymphs per flower cluster”
Claim · model-written summary
Proportion of damaged fruits increased with decreasing number of fruits harvested per row section.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
- Treatment
- decreasing number of fruits harvested per row sectione1
- Outcome
- proportion of damaged fruitse1
- Direction
- increasede1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Strawberry Plants”
e1“proportion of damaged fruits increased with increasing density of nymphs per flower cluster and with decreasing number of fruits harvested per row section”
Claim · model-written summary
Planting productive strawberry cultivars or maintaining cultural practices that promote high yield may provide an effective line of defense against tarnished plant bug.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassae1
- Interactor
- tarnished plant bugLygus lineolarise1pest
- Outcome
- effective line of defense against tarnished plant buge1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“suggesting that planting productive strawberry cultivars or maintaining cultural practices that promote high yield may provide an effective line of defense against tarnished plant bug”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch may suppress damage by tarnished plant bug both directly, by reducing nymph numbers, and indirectly, by enhancing strawberry productivity.
- Taxon
- strawberryFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- reflective mulche1
- Interactor
- tarnished plant bugLygus lineolarise1pest
- Outcome
- incidence of damage by tarnished plant buge1
- Qualifier
- by reducing number of nymphs per flower clustere1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“reflective mulch may suppress incidence of damage by tarnished plant bug both directly, by reducing number of nymphs per flower cluster, and indirectly, by enhancing productivity of strawberry plants”
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