Claim · model-written summary
May fertilizer yielded fewer ears than earlier applications.
Triticum aestivumVerbatim
e0“Fertilizer applied in May increased weed growth, failed to decrease take‐all and yielded fewer ears, less grain, and a higher proportion of tailcorn than did earlier applications”
t0“WINTER WHEAT”
Title
G. A. SALT Annals of Applied Biology 1959. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1959.tb02537.x
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Fertilized Cappelle yielded 50 cwt per acre versus 19 unfertilized.
- Intervention effect Fertilized Holdfast yielded 41 cwt per acre versus 20 unfertilized.
- Observation Repeated cropping reduced mean yield from 27 to 15 and 10 cwt per acre.
- Observation Ear number decreased from 16.7 to 14.6 and 12.2.
- Observation Weight of grain per ear decreased strikingly.
- Observation Small grain proportion increased.
- Observation Eyespot was present every year but did not become prevalent.
- Observation Take-all affected straw rose from 9 to 15 and 26 percent.
- Observation Weed infestation increased severely.
- Intervention effect April Nitro-Chalk yielded the most grain each year.
- Intervention effect April fertilizer reduced eyespot relative to March.
- Intervention effect April fertilizer reduced take-all relative to March.
- Intervention effect May fertilizer increased weed growth.
- Intervention effect May fertilizer failed to decrease take-all.
- Intervention effect May fertilizer yielded less grain than earlier applications.
- Intervention effect May fertilizer yielded a higher tailcorn proportion than earlier applications.