Claim · model-written summary
More frequent irrigation increased biomass at V-17 and anthesis.
- Taxon
- Sweet Sorghumt0
- Organ / stage
- V‐17 and anthesis stagese0
- Treatment
- irrigation frequencye0
- Outcome
- biomasse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Despite increased biomass at the V‐17 and anthesis stages, no differences due to irrigation frequency were found at harvest for yield of biomass or ethanol.”
t0“Sweet Sorghum”
Title
Irrigation Frequency Effects on Growth and Ethanol Yield in Sweet Sorghum
Andrew N. Miller; Michael J. Ottman Agronomy Journal 2010. doi:10.2134/agronj2009.0191
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Most frequent irrigation produced the greatest crop water use.
- Intervention effect Water use did not differ between the 50% and 65% depletion treatments.
- Intervention effect Harvest biomass yield did not differ by irrigation frequency.
- Intervention effect Harvest ethanol yield did not differ by irrigation frequency.
- Intervention effect The 65% depletion treatment returned 21.9 kg ha−1 mm−1 biomass per water applied, more than 35% depletion.
- Intervention effect The 50% depletion treatment returned 21.6 kg ha−1 mm−1 biomass per water applied, more than 35% depletion.
- Intervention effect Total sugar concentration did not differ at harvest.
- Recommendation The authors concluded that irrigation more frequent than 50% depletion does not raise ethanol yield and reduces biomass per water applied.