Paper · 2001 · NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

Yield response to phosphorus fertilizer in a wheat-lentil rotation in a Mediterranean environment

K. Harmsen; A.E. Matar; M.C. Saxena; et al.

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Abstract

The effect of a single application of phosphorus (P) fertilizer on yields of wheat and a following lentil crop was studied in two-course rotational trials under rainfed conditions in a Mediterranean-type environment. Wheat was grown during the 1984/85 and 1985/86 growing seasons at three sites in north-west Syria, with P applied at rates of 0, 17.5, 35.0 and 52.5 kg ha−1. Lentil (Lens culinaris Med.) was grown during the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons at the same sites, following the wheat crops. During the 1985/86 season, no additional P was applied to the lentil crop. During the 1986/87 season, additional P was applied to the lentil crops grown at two of the three sites, in order to compare the residual and direct effects of P fertilizer application. Initial contents of extractable soil P (P-Olsen) were low at all sites: in the range of 2–5 ppm. The response of wheat to direct application of P and of lentil to residual P were described by a modified Mitscherlich equation accounting for the effect of rainfall on potential yield (under rainfed conditions) and on the availability of P to the crop. Under the conditions of the experiments, lentil benefited significantly from P fertilizer applied to the preceding wheat crop. It was concluded that a single application of P to the wheat crop in a wheat-lentil rotation would reduce the cost of lentil production without significantly reducing lentil yields.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Lentil yields benefited significantly from P fertilizer applied to the preceding wheat crop in north-west Syria.

Taxon
LentilLens culinarise1
Treatment
P fertilizer applied to the preceding wheat crope3
Outcome
yieldse0
Direction
benefitede3
Setting
north-west Syriae2

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Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris · TaxonUser:Justinc · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“on yields of wheat and a following lentil crop”

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“Lentil (Lens culinaris Med.)”

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“at three sites in north-west Syria”

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“Under the conditions of the experiments, lentil benefited significantly from P fertilizer applied to the preceding wheat crop”

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Recommendationauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivebasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

A single application of P to the wheat crop in a wheat-lentil rotation would reduce the cost of lentil production.

Taxon
lentilLens culinarise4
Treatment
a single application of P to the wheat crope4
Outcome
reduce the cost of lentil productione4
Qualifier
without significantly reducing lentil yieldse4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris · TaxonUser:Justinc · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“a single application of P to the wheat crop in a wheat-lentil rotation would reduce the cost of lentil production without significantly reducing lentil yields”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectnot significant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Lentil yields were not significantly reduced by a single application of P to the wheat crop.

Taxon
lentilLens culinarise4
Treatment
a single application of P to the wheat crope4
Outcome
lentil yieldse4
Direction
without significantly reducinge4

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris · TaxonUser:Justinc · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e4

“a single application of P to the wheat crop in a wheat-lentil rotation would reduce the cost of lentil production without significantly reducing lentil yields”

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Triticum aestivum · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Positive and negative results

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fertilization · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Results differ

99 papers: 86 positive, 13 negative or no effect

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phosphorus · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Positive and negative results

46 papers: 45 positive, 1 negative or no effect

45 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
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