Abstract
Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize. In the glasshouse, defoliation treatments were imposed on maize after 3 weeks of planting. Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weeks affected plant height, days to tassel, root and shoot yield. The plant diameter and root:shoot ratio were not affected by defoliation. In the field experiment, six defoliation treatments were imposed 7 days after 50 per cent silking. Defoliation of all leaves was the most severe treatment on cob d. wt, dry matter accumulation in grains, weight of 100 test grains and yield. The effect of removing all leaves above the ear was not significantly different from that of removing all leaves below the ear. The effect of removing half of the leaves above the ear was not different from the control.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weeks affected plant height and days to tassel of maize in the glasshouse.
- Treatment
- Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weekse1
- Outcome
- plant height, days to tassele1
- Setting
- glasshousee0
Zea maysNot reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e1“Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weeks affected plant height, days to tassel, root and shoot yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weeks affected root and shoot yield of maize in the glasshouse.
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e1“Removing 2 or 3 leaves every 2 weeks affected plant height, days to tassel, root and shoot yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation did not affect plant diameter or root:shoot ratio of maize in the glasshouse.
- Treatment
- defoliatione2
- Outcome
- plant diameter and root:shoot ratioe2
- Direction
- not affectede2
- Setting
- glasshousee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e2“The plant diameter and root:shoot ratio were not affected by defoliation”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing all leaves was the most severe defoliation treatment for cob dry weight, grain dry matter accumulation and 100-grain weight of maize in the field.
- Treatment
- Defoliation of all leavese4
- Outcome
- cob d. wt, dry matter accumulation in grains, weight of 100 test grainse4
- Direction
- most severee4
- Setting
- field experimente3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e3“In the field experiment, six defoliation treatments were imposed 7 days after 50 per cent silking”
e4“Defoliation of all leaves was the most severe treatment on cob d. wt, dry matter accumulation in grains, weight of 100 test grains and yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing all leaves was the most severe defoliation treatment for maize yield in the field.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e3“In the field experiment, six defoliation treatments were imposed 7 days after 50 per cent silking”
e4“Defoliation of all leaves was the most severe treatment on cob d. wt, dry matter accumulation in grains, weight of 100 test grains and yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing all leaves above the ear did not differ significantly from removing all leaves below the ear in the field.
- Treatment
- removing all leaves above the eare5
- Direction
- not significantly differente5
- Comparator
- removing all leaves below the eare5
- Setting
- field experimente3
Not reportedOutcome
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e3“In the field experiment, six defoliation treatments were imposed 7 days after 50 per cent silking”
e5“The effect of removing all leaves above the ear was not significantly different from that of removing all leaves below the ear”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing half of the leaves above the ear did not differ from the control in the field.
- Treatment
- removing half of the leaves above the eare6
- Direction
- not differente6
- Comparator
- controle6
- Setting
- field experimente3
Not reportedOutcome
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted in the glasshouse and in the field to evaluate the effect of leaf loss on development, dry matter accumulation and yield of maize”
e3“In the field experiment, six defoliation treatments were imposed 7 days after 50 per cent silking”
e6“The effect of removing half of the leaves above the ear was not different from the control”
The same questions in other papers
pruning · growth · Zea mays (maize)Results differ
33 papers in the same direction as this paper · 29 in the opposite direction
- positive
- negative
- no effect
59 papers more in this group
See all 63 papers →pruning · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
87 papers in the same direction as this paper · 86 in the opposite direction
- positive
- negative
- negative
170 papers more in this group
See all 174 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.