Abstract
Field studies were conducted for three seasons, Fall 1994, Spring 1995, and Fall 1995, on the effect of ultraviolet (UV)-reflective films (mulches) on the silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia argentifolii Bellows and Perring), the incidence of tomato mottle virus (ToMoV), and on fruit yields of staked, fresh-market tomatoes ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). The UV-reflective mulches were metallized aluminum (aluminum) and painted aluminum (silver) on either black or white plastic film. The aluminum and silver mulches were evaluated with and without a white (fall) or black (spring) 25-cm-wide painted band in the bed center. Controls were the conventional white (fall) or black (spring) polyethylene mulches. Highest reflected energy (μmol·m –2 ·s –1 ) to the plants at 15 cm from the mulch surface was measured on the aluminum mulch with or without a white painted band. Lowest energy was reflected from the white or black controls and from silver on black mulches with or without a black painted band. Whitefly populations in the fall were lower ( P ≤ 0.05) on the aluminum than on the silver mulches. In the spring, when whitefly populations were low, whiteflies were more numerous on the black control and silver on white, than on the aluminum mulches. In the fall seasons, the proportion of plants with symptoms of ToMoV transmitted by the silverleaf whitefly were higher on the controls than on the aluminum mulch. In the spring, the proportion of plants with symptoms was not affected by mulch treatments. Yields in the fall were similar with UV-reflective or white control mulches. In the spring, fruit size and marketable yields were greater ( P ≤ 0.05) on plants with silver on white mulch than on the control black mulch.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Reflected energy to tomato plants at 15 cm from the mulch surface was highest on the aluminum mulch, with or without a white painted band.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- aluminum mulche0
- Outcome
- Highest reflected energye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Highest reflected energy (μmol·m –2 ·s –1 ) to the plants at 15 cm from the mulch surface was measured on the aluminum mulch with or without a white painted band”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Lowest reflected energy came from the white or black control mulches and from silver on black mulches, with or without a black painted band.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- silver on black mulchese0
- Outcome
- Lowest energye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Lowest energy was reflected from the white or black controls and from silver on black mulches with or without a black painted band”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the fall, silverleaf whitefly populations on tomato were lower on aluminum than on silver mulches (P <= 0.05).
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- aluminume0
- Interactor
- Whiteflye0pest
- Outcome
- Whitefly populationse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- silver mulchese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Whitefly populations in the fall were lower ( P ≤ 0.05) on the aluminum than on the silver mulches”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the spring, when whitefly populations were low, whiteflies were more numerous on the black control than on the aluminum mulches.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- aluminum mulchese0
- Interactor
- whitefliesAleyrodoideae0pest
- Outcome
- whitefliese0
- Direction
- more numerouse0
- Comparator
- black controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the spring, when whitefly populations were low, whiteflies were more numerous on the black control and silver on white, than on the aluminum mulches”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the spring, whiteflies were more numerous on silver on white mulch than on the aluminum mulches.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- aluminum mulchese0
- Interactor
- whitefliesAleyrodoideae0pest
- Outcome
- whitefliese0
- Direction
- more numerouse0
- Comparator
- silver on whitee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the spring, when whitefly populations were low, whiteflies were more numerous on the black control and silver on white, than on the aluminum mulches”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the fall seasons, the proportion of tomato plants with ToMoV symptoms, transmitted by silverleaf whitefly, was higher on the controls than on the aluminum mulch.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- aluminum mulche0
- Interactor
- ToMoVe0pathogen
- Second interactor
- silverleaf whitefly
Bemisia argentifoliie0pest - Outcome
- proportion of plants with symptoms of ToMoVe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the fall seasons, the proportion of plants with symptoms of ToMoV transmitted by the silverleaf whitefly were higher on the controls than on the aluminum mulch”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the spring, the proportion of tomato plants with ToMoV symptoms was not affected by mulch treatments.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- mulch treatmentse0
- Outcome
- proportion of plants with symptomse0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“In the spring, the proportion of plants with symptoms was not affected by mulch treatments”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the fall, tomato yields were similar with UV-reflective or white control mulches.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- UV-reflectivee0
- Outcome
- Yieldse0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- white control mulchese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yields in the fall were similar with UV-reflective or white control mulches”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
In the spring, tomato fruit size and marketable yields were greater (P <= 0.05) on plants with silver on white mulch than on the control black mulch.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- silver on white mulche0
- Outcome
- fruit size and marketable yieldse0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- control black mulche0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the spring, fruit size and marketable yields were greater ( P ≤ 0.05) on plants with silver on white mulch than on the control black mulch”
t0“Tomato”
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