Claim · model-written summary
Excess nitrogen was associated with more severe rust and mildew in wheat and barley plots.
- Taxon
- wheat and barley
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Hordeum vulgare
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- excessive quantities of nitrogene0
- Interactor
- rust and mildewe0pathogen
- Outcome
- rust and mildewe0
- Direction
- most severelye0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“wheat and barley suffered most severely from rust and mildew in those plots which received excessive quantities of nitrogen”
Title
A preliminary study of the relationship between manuring and susceptibility to disease in potatoes
Herbert W. Miles; Brynmor Thomas The Journal of Agricultural Science 1925. doi:10.1017/s0021859600005591
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation Tomatoes heavily dressed with nitrogenous manures were readily attacked by disease-producing organisms.
- Intervention effect At Cheshunt, omitting potash from manures produced a condition similar to excessive nitrogenous fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Adding potash tended to increase plant disease resistance.