Abstract
In fruit and berry production the biggest problem farmers face year after year is the attack of fungus diseases. Up to 95% of an apple production can be infected in a year by the scab disease. Conventional farmers use great amounts of pesticides to reduce this number, while organic farmers have no defense. A new research conducted by Marianne G. Bertelsen, senior researcher in the Department of Food Science at Aarhus University, shows that sheltering the apple trees from the rain can reduce the infection rate to near 0%. By sheltering the trees, the leaves are able to dry faster, preventing the scab from spreading. At the same time the implementation of large fields of solar panels for electricity production faces some ethical issues. Occupying land that could have been used for food production can result in rising food and land prices and can, in extreme situations, lead to famine in poor parts of the world. The idea of this product was to combine these two issues. By covering orchards with shelters containing solar panels, the farmers could reduce their use of pesticides, while producing solar energy.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Sheltering apple trees from rain reduced scab infection to near zero.
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- sheltering the apple trees from the raine0
- Interactor
- scabe1pathogen
- Outcome
- infection ratee0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Value
- near 0%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“sheltering the apple trees from the rain can reduce the infection rate to near 0%”
e1“By sheltering the trees, the leaves are able to dry faster, preventing the scab from spreading.”
Claim · model-written summary
Sheltered apple tree leaves dried faster.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticat0
- Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Treatment
- sheltering the treese0
- Outcome
- leaves are able to dry fastere0
- Direction
- fastere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“By sheltering the trees, the leaves are able to dry faster, preventing the scab from spreading.”
t0“apple trees”
Claim · model-written summary
The faster leaf drying is described as preventing scab spread.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticat0
- Interactor
- scabe0pathogen
- Outcome
- preventing the scab from spreadinge0
- Qualifier
- the leaves are able to dry fastere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“By sheltering the trees, the leaves are able to dry faster, preventing the scab from spreading.”
t0“apple trees”
Claim · model-written summary
The proposed solar-panel orchard shelters could reduce farmers’ pesticide use.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- covering orchards with shelters containing solar panelse0
- Outcome
- reduce their use of pesticidese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“By covering orchards with shelters containing solar panels, the farmers could reduce their use of pesticides, while producing solar energy.”
t0“apple trees”
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