Claim · model-written summary
Maintaining vegetative biomass appeared to be at the expense of reproductive tissue biomass in injured field corn.
- Taxon
- field corne0
- Treatment
- larval injury by western corn rootworme0
- Interactor
- western corn rootworm
Diabrotica virgifera virgiferae0pest - Outcome
- reproductive tissue biomasse6
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede6
- Qualifier
- unaltered levels of vegetative tissue biomasse6
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“effects of larval injury by western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, on vegetative and reproductive biomass accumulation of field corn, Zea mays L”
e6“Plant response to stress was generally similar in all three soil textures. The compensation and maintenance of unaltered levels of vegetative tissue biomass appeared to be at the sacrifice of reproductive tissue biomass. Western com rootworrn larval injury consistently reduced com grain yield by up to 15.0% in 1989 and by 40.7% in 1990”
Title
L. D. Godfrey; L. J. Meinke; R. J. Wright Journal of Economic Entomology 1993. doi:10.1093/jee/86.5.1557
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Larval injury by western corn rootworm decreased vegetative biomass in the early phases of injury.
- Intervention effect Larval infestations reduced field corn leaf area and leaf wet weight by up to 17.4%.
- Intervention effect In 1989, dry weights of injured field corn were greater than those of uninjured plants at about 2 weeks after pupation.
- Intervention effect In 1990, injured and uninjured field corn had similar biomass, an exact compensatory response.
- Mechanism The differing biomass response was probably related to the plant development stage at peak injury.
- Observation In 1989, field corn at the V15 stage averaged 8,350 cm2 leaf area.
- Observation In 1990, field corn at the V8-V10 stage had 4,761.3 cm2 leaf area.
- Intervention effect Larval-injured field corn plants could not use supplemental irrigation soil moisture for vegetative biomass production as uninjured plants did.
- Observation Plant response to stress was similar across all three soil textures.
- Intervention effect Western corn rootworm larval injury reduced grain yield by up to 15.0% in 1989.
- Intervention effect Western corn rootworm larval injury reduced grain yield by 40.7% in 1990.