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Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits

Mulching is a common practice for improving crop yield and obtaining an out-of-season production, but when made using plastic materials it can bring environmental problems due to the management and the disposal of films at the end of the cropping seasons. To increase the sustainability of this pract...

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Autores principales: Di Mola, Ida, Cozzolino, Eugenio, Ottaiano, Lucia, Riccardi, Riccardo, Spigno, Patrizia, Petriccione, Milena, Fiorentino, Nunzio, Fagnano, Massimo, Mori, Mauro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37765367
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12183203
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author Di Mola, Ida
Cozzolino, Eugenio
Ottaiano, Lucia
Riccardi, Riccardo
Spigno, Patrizia
Petriccione, Milena
Fiorentino, Nunzio
Fagnano, Massimo
Mori, Mauro
author_facet Di Mola, Ida
Cozzolino, Eugenio
Ottaiano, Lucia
Riccardi, Riccardo
Spigno, Patrizia
Petriccione, Milena
Fiorentino, Nunzio
Fagnano, Massimo
Mori, Mauro
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description Mulching is a common practice for improving crop yield and obtaining an out-of-season production, but when made using plastic materials it can bring environmental problems due to the management and the disposal of films at the end of the cropping seasons. To increase the sustainability of this practice, recently, mulching films made with biodegradable organic materials have become more widely used. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a biodegradable mulching film on yield and qualitative traits of the San Marzano tomato fruits over two years (2014 and 2015). Two different types of mulching were tested: (i) black biodegradable film (MB12) and (ii) black low-density polyethylene (LDPE) were compared to bare soil (BS). Both mulching films elicited a 25% increase in yield, mainly due to the significantly higher number of fruits per square meter, compared to BS. Both mulching films also elicited a 9.9% increase in total soluble solids and a 57% increase in carotenoid content, while firmness showed the highest value in BS fruits. MB12 determined the highest value of the Hunter color ratio a/b of tomato fruits, followed by LDPE, while the lowest value was recorded in BS fruits. Both mulching films elicited an increase of 9.6%, 26.0%, and 11.7% for flavonoids, polyphenols, and AsA, respectively. In 2014, the MB12 degradation started at 71 days after transplant (DAT); in 2015, at 104 DAT. Therefore, replacing polyethylene with biodegradable film would seem to be an agronomically efficient and environmentally sustainable practice.
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spelling pubmed-105364192023-09-29 Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits Di Mola, Ida Cozzolino, Eugenio Ottaiano, Lucia Riccardi, Riccardo Spigno, Patrizia Petriccione, Milena Fiorentino, Nunzio Fagnano, Massimo Mori, Mauro Plants (Basel) Article Mulching is a common practice for improving crop yield and obtaining an out-of-season production, but when made using plastic materials it can bring environmental problems due to the management and the disposal of films at the end of the cropping seasons. To increase the sustainability of this practice, recently, mulching films made with biodegradable organic materials have become more widely used. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a biodegradable mulching film on yield and qualitative traits of the San Marzano tomato fruits over two years (2014 and 2015). Two different types of mulching were tested: (i) black biodegradable film (MB12) and (ii) black low-density polyethylene (LDPE) were compared to bare soil (BS). Both mulching films elicited a 25% increase in yield, mainly due to the significantly higher number of fruits per square meter, compared to BS. Both mulching films also elicited a 9.9% increase in total soluble solids and a 57% increase in carotenoid content, while firmness showed the highest value in BS fruits. MB12 determined the highest value of the Hunter color ratio a/b of tomato fruits, followed by LDPE, while the lowest value was recorded in BS fruits. Both mulching films elicited an increase of 9.6%, 26.0%, and 11.7% for flavonoids, polyphenols, and AsA, respectively. In 2014, the MB12 degradation started at 71 days after transplant (DAT); in 2015, at 104 DAT. Therefore, replacing polyethylene with biodegradable film would seem to be an agronomically efficient and environmentally sustainable practice. MDPI 2023-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10536419/ /pubmed/37765367 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12183203 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Di Mola, Ida
Cozzolino, Eugenio
Ottaiano, Lucia
Riccardi, Riccardo
Spigno, Patrizia
Petriccione, Milena
Fiorentino, Nunzio
Fagnano, Massimo
Mori, Mauro
Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title_full Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title_fullStr Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title_full_unstemmed Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title_short Biodegradable Mulching Film vs. Traditional Polyethylene: Effects on Yield and Quality of San Marzano Tomato Fruits
title_sort biodegradable mulching film vs. traditional polyethylene: effects on yield and quality of san marzano tomato fruits
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37765367
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12183203
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