Abstract
THIS STUDY was carried out during two successive seasons (2012 and 2013) on 4 - years old pomegranate trees, (Punica granatum L.) wonderful cv., grown on a sandy soil under drip irrigation to assess four different mulching treatments, rice straw, palm fronds, transparent polyethylene sheets and gravel on tree growth and their productivity. The design of the experiment is randomized complete block five treatments with three replicates each. Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield. Rice straw gave the highest total soluble solids, Vitamin (C), total rind and juice anthocyanin. Gravel and rice straw mulch were more effective in reducing cracked fruits and decrease sunburn disorder. Mulching treatments reduced grass growth and increased moisture and soil temperature conservation, in particular of gravel mulch which was superior in this concern. It can be recommended that gravel mulching was the most effective treatment to improve soil moisture, growth, quality and productivity of pomegranate fruits.
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Claims 18
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranate
Punica granatumt0 - Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- number of leavese0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest shoot length in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- shoot lengthe0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest number of internodes in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- number of internodese0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest length in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- lengthe0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest diameter in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- diametere0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest volume in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- volumee0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest aril weight per fruit in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- aril weight per fruite0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest fruit weight in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel mulch gave the highest yield in pomegranate.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel mulche0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“Gravel mulch gave the highest number of leaves, shoot length, number of internodes, as well as length, diameter, volume, aril weight per fruit, fruit weight and yield.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulch gave the highest total soluble solids in pomegranate fruit.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Rice strawe0
- Outcome
- total soluble solidse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Rice straw gave the highest total soluble solids, Vitamin (C), total rind and juice anthocyanin.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulch gave the highest Vitamin (C) in pomegranate fruit.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Rice strawe0
- Outcome
- Vitamin (C)e0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rice straw gave the highest total soluble solids, Vitamin (C), total rind and juice anthocyanin.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw mulch gave the highest total rind and juice anthocyanin in pomegranate fruit.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Rice strawe0
- Outcome
- total rind and juice anthocyanine0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rice straw gave the highest total soluble solids, Vitamin (C), total rind and juice anthocyanin.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel and rice straw mulch reduced cracked fruits.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel and rice straw mulche0
- Outcome
- cracked fruitse0
- Direction
- reducinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Gravel and rice straw mulch were more effective in reducing cracked fruits and decrease sunburn disorder.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Gravel and rice straw mulch reduced sunburn disorder.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Gravel and rice straw mulche0
- Outcome
- sunburn disordere0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Gravel and rice straw mulch were more effective in reducing cracked fruits and decrease sunburn disorder.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching reduced grass growth, especially with gravel.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Mulching treatmentse0
- Interactor
- grasse0weed
- Outcome
- grass growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- gravel mulche0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching treatments reduced grass growth and increased moisture and soil temperature conservation, in particular of gravel mulch which was superior in this concern.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased moisture, especially with gravel.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Mulching treatmentse0
- Outcome
- moisturee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- gravel mulche0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching treatments reduced grass growth and increased moisture and soil temperature conservation, in particular of gravel mulch which was superior in this concern.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased soil temperature conservation, especially with gravel.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- Mulching treatmentse0
- Outcome
- soil temperature conservatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- gravel mulche0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching treatments reduced grass growth and increased moisture and soil temperature conservation, in particular of gravel mulch which was superior in this concern.”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend gravel mulching to improve pomegranate production.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- gravel mulchinge0
- Outcome
- improve soil moisture, growth, quality and productivity of pomegranate fruitse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It can be recommended that gravel mulching was the most effective treatment to improve soil moisture, growth, quality and productivity of pomegranate fruits.”
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