Claim · model-written summary
Corn hybrids showed no consistent differences in grain yield or mycotoxins.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse6
- Treatment
- hybridse2
- Outcome
- grain yields or mycotoxinse2
Verbatim
e6“Potassium maintains water status in corn ( Zea mays L)”
e2“Consistent differences in grain yields or mycotoxins were not found among hybrids or plants/acre”
Title
Additional Potassium Did Not Decrease Aflatoxin or Fumonisin nor Increase Corn Yields
H. Arnold Bruns; Hamed K. Abbas Crop Management 2010. doi:10.1094/cm-2010-0216-01-rs
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Increased potassium fertility did not reduce aflatoxin contamination of corn grain.
- Intervention effect Increased potassium fertility did not reduce fumonisin contamination of corn grain.
- Intervention effect Increased potassium fertility did not increase corn grain yield.
- Observation Corn plant densities showed no consistent differences in grain yield or mycotoxins.
- Mechanism Differences among years in mycotoxins and yield likely resulted from differences in rainfall.
- Recommendation Current potassium fertilizer recommendations appear adequate for both low mycotoxin levels and high grain yields.
- Observation Site 1 soil needed 60 lbs K 2 O/acre to yield 200 bu/acre of corn.
- Observation Site 2 soil needed 90 lbs/acre of potassium for corn.