Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude conservation tillage can promote photosynthetic capacity and inferior-kernel grain filling through soil water and root morphology.
- Treatment
- Conservation tillagee0
- Outcome
- photosynthetic capacity and grain filling of inferior kernelse0
- Qualifier
- regulating soil water content and root system morphologye0
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Verbatim
e0“Conservation tillage could promote summer maize photosynthetic capacity and grain filling of inferior kernels by regulating soil water content and root system morphology.”
Title
Zhen Wang; Jun Sun; Yadan Du; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2021. doi:10.1002/jsfa.11571
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased final 100-kernel weight versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased maximum and mean grain-filling rates versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased soil water at jointing, silking and grain filling versus CT.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased root-system morphology and dry matter accumulation versus CT.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased net photosynthetic rate, transpiration efficiency and stomatal conductance versus CT.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage decreased intercellular CO2 concentration versus CT.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased chlorophyll content and above-ground dry matter accumulation versus CT.
- Intervention effect Reduced and no tillage increased maize evapotranspiration.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage increased maize grain yield by 17% versus CT.
- Intervention effect No tillage increased maize grain yield by 14% versus CT.