Claim · model-written summary
Increasing plant density reduced cottonseed yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- plant densitye0
- Outcome
- cottonseed yield/hae0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“cottonseed yield and quality”
e0“As plant density increased, there was a decrease in cottonseed yield/ha”
Title
Zakaria M. Sawan; Ahmad E. Basyony; Willis L. McCuistion; et al. Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society 1993. doi:10.1007/bf02545314
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density reduced seed index and protein content.
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density reduced oil and protein yields per hectare.
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density reduced oil refractive index, iodine value and unsaponifiable matter.
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density reduced unsaturated fatty acids.
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density raised oil acid and saponification values.
- Intervention effect Increasing plant density raised saturated fatty acids.
- Intervention effect Cycocel increased cottonseed yield and seed index.
- Intervention effect Alar increased cottonseed yield and seed index.
- Intervention effect Cycocel increased seed protein content and oil and protein yield.
- Intervention effect Alar increased seed protein content and oil and protein yield.
- Intervention effect Cycocel increased oil refractive index, iodine value and unsaponifiable matter.
- Intervention effect Alar increased oil refractive index, iodine value and unsaponifiable matter.
- Intervention effect Cycocel increased unsaturated fatty acids and reduced oil acid and saponification values.
- Intervention effect Alar increased unsaturated fatty acids.
- Intervention effect Oil acid and saponification values decreased with growth retardant application.
- Association Cottonseed yield did not differ among application rates of either chemical.
- Intervention effect Cycocel at 750 ppm produced the highest oil and protein yield per hectare, followed by Alar at 250 ppm.
- Intervention effect Cycocel at 250 ppm gave the highest refractive index and unsaponifiable matter and the lowest acid value.
- Intervention effect Alar at 250 ppm gave the highest iodine value and lowest saponification value.