Abstract
SummaryAn 8 cm-thick mulch significantly increased shoot growth of young cv Pollock avocado plants in wet and dry seasons and of young cv Julie mango plants in the wet season, but had little effect on the root growth of either species. Mulching also limited weed growth and daily fluctuations in soil temperature, conserved soil moisture, improved soil physical properties (bulk density, porosity and infiltration rate) and promoted vigorous rooting on the soil surface under the mulch. Irrigation during the dry season did not significantly increase shoot or root growth of either species but the increases due to irrigation were apparently greater than those due to mulching.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
An 8 cm mulch significantly increased Pollock avocado shoot growth in wet and dry seasons.
- Taxon
- avocado
Persea americanae0 - Material
- cv Pollocke0
- Treatment
- 8 cm-thick mulche0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- wet and dry seasonse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“An 8 cm-thick mulch significantly increased shoot growth of young cv Pollock avocado plants in wet and dry seasons”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
An 8 cm mulch significantly increased Julie mango shoot growth in the wet season.
- Taxon
- mango
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Mangifera indicae0 - Material
- cv Juliee0
- Treatment
- 8 cm-thick mulche1
- Outcome
- shoot growthe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- wet seasone0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“young cv Julie mango plants in the wet season”
e1“An 8 cm-thick mulch significantly increased shoot growth”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching had little effect on root growth of avocado and mango.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- mulche1
- Outcome
- root growthe0
- Direction
- little effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but had little effect on the root growth of either species”
e1“An 8 cm-thick mulch significantly increased shoot growth of young cv Pollock avocado plants in wet and dry seasons”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching limited weed growth.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed growthe0
- Direction
- limitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching also limited weed growth”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching limited daily soil temperature fluctuations.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge0
- Outcome
- daily fluctuations in soil temperaturee0
- Direction
- limitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching also limited weed growth and daily fluctuations in soil temperature”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching conserved soil moisture.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge1
- Outcome
- soil moisturee0
- Direction
- conservede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“conserved soil moisture”
e1“Mulching also limited weed growth”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching improved soil bulk density, porosity and infiltration rate.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- Mulchinge1
- Outcome
- soil physical properties (bulk density, porosity and infiltration rate)e0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“improved soil physical properties (bulk density, porosity and infiltration rate)”
e1“Mulching also limited weed growth”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching promoted vigorous soil-surface rooting.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- mulche0
- Outcome
- rooting on the soil surfacee0
- Direction
- promotede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“promoted vigorous rooting on the soil surface under the mulch”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Dry-season irrigation did not significantly increase avocado and mango shoot or root growth.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- Irrigatione0
- Outcome
- shoot or root growthe0
- Direction
- did not significantly increasee0
- Qualifier
- dry seasone0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Irrigation during the dry season did not significantly increase shoot or root growth of either species”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Growth increases from irrigation were apparently greater than those from mulching.
- Taxon
- avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)Persea americanaMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- irrigatione0
- Outcome
- increasese0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Qualifier
- apparentlye0
- Comparator
- mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the increases due to irrigation were apparently greater than those due to mulching”
t0“avocado (Persea americanaMill.) and mango (Mangifera indicaL.)”
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