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The disease causes a decrease in tobacco leaf yield.

Taxon: TobaccoNicotiana tabacumt0
Outcome: tobacco leaf yielde1
Direction: decreasee1

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“Causing Leaf Spot on Tobacco”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 47–75

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“The disease spreads widely and causes a decrease in tobacco leaf yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 3314–3384

Title

First Report of Pestalotiopsis trachycarpicola Causing Leaf Spot on Tobacco in China

Weili Gang; Weijun Sang; Yi Cao; et al. Plant Disease 2025. doi:10.1094/pdis-05-25-1076-pdn

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Cluster pruning did not decrease total yield across cultivars.

Taxon: TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
Treatment: treatmentse0
Outcome: total yielde0
Direction: no decreasee0
Comparator: unpruned controle0

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“There was no decrease in total yield, across all cultivars, between treatments and the unpruned control.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1976–2080

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“Tomato”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 25–31

Title

Fruit Cluster Pruning of Tomato in an Organic High-Tunnel System

Brian A. Mitchell; Mark E. Uchanski; Adriane Elliott HortScience 2019. doi:10.21273/hortsci13487-18

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Intervention effect Three-fruit pruning increased fresh fruit weight in both hybrids.
Intervention effect Cherokee Purple did not respond to cluster pruning.
Observation Jet Star yielded more than the other two cultivars.
Association SSC and marketability depended more on cultivar than pruning.
Observation Lola had significantly greater SSC than the other cultivars.
Observation Jet Star had the greatest marketable yield.
Observation Cherokee Purple had greater cull yield.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Cocoa with cassava had a slight yield decrease.

Taxon: cocoaTheobroma cacaoe0
Treatment: cocoa/cassava combinatione0
Outcome: yielde0
Direction: decreasee0

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“cocoa/cassava combination where there was a slight decrease in yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1521–1589

Title

Long Term Assessment Of The Agronomic And Economic Benefits Of Cocoa Food Crop Intercropping In The Absence Of Fertilizer Application

Opoku-Ameyaw, K.; Oppong, F. K.; Acheampong, K.; et al. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2012. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8168

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Intervention effect Cocoa with plantain reduced seedling girth in year two.
Intervention effect Treatments did not significantly affect cocoa height.
Observation The four crop intercrop had the lowest soil N, P and K, without significance.
Intervention effect Intercropped cocoa yielded 28-60% more beans than sole cocoa, except cocoa with cassava.
Observation Intercropping was profitable.
Association Plantain and maize combinations produced higher net benefits.
Recommendation The authors recommend intercropping during establishment.

Observationobservedoriginal resultnegativesimulated

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The UKMO scenario was unfavourable and showed a considerable yield decrease.

Taxon: riceOryza sativae1
Outcome: yielde0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: UKMO scenarioe0

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“the UKMO scenario is not favorable, showing a considerable yield decrease”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 836–909

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“rice, maize and wheat production in Japan”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 83–124

Title

The Impacts of Climatic Warming on Cereal Crop Production in Japan.

Hiroshi SEINO Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 1995. doi:10.2480/agrmet.51.131

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Intervention effect Higher temperature decreased simulated cereal yields in many regions under current management.
Intervention effect Higher temperature shortened simulated cereal growing seasons in many regions.
Intervention effect Direct CO2 benefits may compensate for yield losses in central and northern Japan.
Intervention effect Direct CO2 benefits did not compensate for yield losses in Kyushu.
Association Simulated crop-yield changes varied greatly among GCM scenarios.
Observation The GISS scenario was generally favourable for Japanese crop production.
Observation Wheat production was vulnerable under every GCM climate-change scenario.
Intervention effect Earlier planting raised simulated yields under climate change in most cases.
Intervention effect Earlier planting did not improve simulated yields in Kyushu because of high temperature stress.
Recommendation Early planting and irrigation were proposed as adaptation strategies.
Recommendation New cultivars better adapted to climate change would be required in Kyushu.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Halving insect visits caused little sunflower yield decrease.

Taxon: sunflowerHelianthus annuust0
Treatment: insect visits were reduced by 50%e0
Outcome: yielde0
Direction: little decreasee0

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“little decrease in yield when insect visits were reduced by 50%”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 632–695

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“in sunflower, combining a gradient in insect pollination”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 208–264

Title

Pollination benefits are maximized at intermediate nutrient levels

Giovanni Tamburini; Francesco Lami; Lorenzo Marini Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2017. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0729

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Association Pollination benefits to sunflower yield peaked at intermediate N supply.
Intervention effect Pollination increased sunflower yield about 25% versus complete pollinator exclusion.
Association The authors found a nonlinear pollination by nutrient interaction in seed production.
Recommendation Optimal pollination could compensate for lower nitrogen applications.

Associationobservedoriginal resultnegativesimulated

Claim · model-written summary

Poor groundcover suppression may decrease maize grain yield.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Treatment: poor groundcover suppressione0
Outcome: maize grain yielde0
Direction: decreasee0

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“poor groundcover suppression may produce unfavorable environmental consequences and decrease maize grain yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1594–1704

Title

Modeling perennial groundcover effects on annual maize grain crop growth with the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator

C. A. Bartel; S. V. Archontoulis; A. W. Lenssen; et al. Agronomy Journal 2020. doi:10.1002/agj2.20108

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Method / resource The integrated model predicted maize aboveground biomass with 13–27% RRMSE.
Method / resource The model predicted groundcover tissue nitrogen concentration with 11–18% RRMSE.
Method / resource The calibrated model captured observed groundcover biomass trends.
Method / resource The calibrated model captured observed soil nitrate trends.
Mechanism Light competition was the primary groundcover-related maize yield penalty.
Association Water affected maize yield later in the growing season.
Association Nitrogen affected maize yield later in the growing season.
Association Effective groundcover suppression produced minimal maize yield loss.
Association Effective groundcover suppression produced significant environmental benefits.
Association Poor groundcover suppression may cause unfavorable environmental outcomes.

Observationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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BO-1 had an 8% yield decrease.

Taxon: okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
Material: BO-1e0
Outcome: yielde0
Direction: decreasee0
Value: 8e0

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“the minimum decrease in yield of 8 and 13% was recorded in BO-1 and Varsha”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1167–1241

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“okra”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 33–37

Title

Morpho-physiological response of okra (Abelmoschus esculentum L.) genotypes to moisture stress during reproductive stage

R. M. Bhatt; N.K. Srinivasa Rao Indian Journal of Horticulture 2005

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Intervention effect Moisture stress reduced relative water content from 72–82% in irrigated plants to 66–75%.
Observation BO-1 had the maximum relative water content during stress.
Intervention effect Stress reduced leaf area across genotypes by 25–70%.
Observation Pusa Makhamali had the greatest reduction in photosynthesis under stress, followed by IIHR-1685 and Arka Anamika.
Observation BO-1 maintained photosynthesis at 11.5 µmol m−2 s−1 after 10 days of stress.
Observation Varsha maintained photosynthesis at 9.7 µmol m−2 s−1 after 10 days of stress.
Observation Arka Abhay maintained photosynthesis at 8.8 µmol m−2 s−1 after 10 days of stress.
Observation Photosynthetic rate recovered significantly after stress release.
Intervention effect Further growth was considerably affected after stress release.
Intervention effect Moisture stress significantly decreased per-plant yield.
Observation IIHR-1685 had the greatest yield reduction.
Observation Varsha had a 13% yield decrease.

Intervention effectauthor interpretationreview summarynegativebasis n/a

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Temperatures above optimum decrease cotton yield.

Taxon: cottonGossypium hirsutume0
Treatment: increase in temperatures above optimume0
Outcome: cotton yielde0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: optimume0

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“In contrast, increase in temperatures above optimum decrease cotton yield due to increased boll abscission and smaller boll size.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 325–454

Title

Crop Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Interactions with Temperature

K. Raja Reddy; P. V. Vara Prasad; V. Gopal Kakani Journal of Crop Improvement 2005. doi:10.1300/j411v13n01_08

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Intervention effect Elevated CO2 improves cotton productivity.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 improves cotton carbon exchange rates.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 improves cotton vegetative growth.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 improves cotton boll number.
Intervention effect Temperatures above optimum increase cotton boll abscission.
Intervention effect Temperatures above optimum make cotton bolls smaller.
Intervention effect Doubling CO2 did not ameliorate high temperature effects on reproductive growth.
Intervention effect Doubling CO2 did not ameliorate high temperature effects on fiber quality.
Observation In future climates with warmer temperatures and elevated CO2, cotton yield will decrease.
Observation In future climates with warmer temperatures and elevated CO2, cotton quality will decrease.

Associationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Earlier MPB initiation produced the greatest lint yield decrease.

Taxon: CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
Treatment: earlier initiation of MPB applicatione0
Outcome: lint yielde0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Higher seasonal totals and earlier initiation of MPB application resulted in the greatest decrease in lint yield.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1278–1391

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“Cotton”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 26–32

Title

Differential Responses of Cotton Cultivars when Applying Mepiquat Pentaborate

Nathan B. O'Berry; Joel C. Faircloth; Michael A. Jones; et al. Agronomy Journal 2009. doi:10.2134/agronj2007.0333

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Intervention effect FM 960 BR July height fell 25% with MPB in South Carolina in 2006.
Intervention effect DP 444 BG/RR July height fell 12% with MPB.
Intervention effect DP 555 BG/RR July height fell 13% with MPB.
Observation Actual height reductions did not differ among cultivars.
Intervention effect MPB reduced harvest height by 8 to 34%.
Intervention effect MPB reduced height-to-node ratio by 10 to 32%.
Intervention effect MPB enhanced maturity across cultivars.
Intervention effect MPB reduced lint yield by 3.7 to 8.5%.
Association Higher seasonal MPB totals produced the greatest lint yield decrease.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Daily sprinkle irrigation tended to decrease pepper yield.

Taxon: Pepper plantst0
Treatment: sprinkle irrigated dailye0
Outcome: Yielde0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Yield tended to decrease when the plants were sprinkle irrigated daily.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 363–434

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“Pepper plants ( Capsicum annuum L. cv. California Wonder)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–66

Title

Sprinkle and Trickle Irrigation of Green Pepper in an Arid Zone1

D. Goldberg; M. Shmueli HortScience 1971. doi:10.21273/hortsci.6.6.559

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Intervention effect Trickle irrigation gave greater pepper yield, leaf growth, and root development than sprinkle irrigation.
Intervention effect Irrigation frequency had a slight but nonsignificant effect.
Intervention effect Trickle irrigation every 5 days tended to reduce pepper yield.
Intervention effect Sprinkling increased leaf chloride content, especially with frequent irrigation.

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