Claim · model-written summary
Late-season leaf area decline rate decreased 11%.
Oryza sativaNot reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“an 11% decrease in the rate of leaf area decline”
t0“Rice”
e1“severe root damage (T2, seedling roots pruned to 1 cm)”
Title
Xilin Fang; Xing Li; Yusheng Zhang; et al. Agronomy 2026. doi:10.3390/agronomy16111078
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Severe root damage reduced early-season rice yield by 8%.
- Intervention effect Severe root damage had no significant effect on late-season rice yield.
- Intervention effect Mild root damage did not affect yield in either season.
- Intervention effect Early-season pre-heading biomass was 13% lower than CK.
- Intervention effect Early-season total biomass was 13% lower than CK.
- Intervention effect Early-season leaf and growth traits decreased 5–32%.
- Intervention effect Late-season pre-heading biomass declined 9%.
- Intervention effect Late-season post-heading biomass increased 16%.
- Intervention effect Late-season post-heading crop growth rate increased 17%.
- Mechanism Biomass dynamics were the primary modeled pathway from root damage to yield.