Claim · model-written summary
Lucerne rotation effect was smaller in year two and increased in years three and four with flowering rainfall.
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“The effect was much smaller in the second year but it increased in the third and fourth years, in direct relation to the rainfall during the sorghum flowering period”
Title
ICR Holford Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 1989. doi:10.1071/ar9890255
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Lucerne leys increased first-crop sorghum grain yield.
- Intervention effect Lucerne leys increased sorghum foliage and grain nitrogen content.
- Intervention effect Lucerne leys increased first-crop sorghum nitrogen uptake.
- Observation Lucerne rotation effect was larger on black earth than red clay.
- Observation Lucerne nitrogen contribution after year one was no greater than long fallowing.
- Observation Sorghum after annual legume tended to yield less than after long fallow.
- Intervention effect Extended grazing lowered lucerne and subsequent sorghum yields on black earth.
- Intervention effect Sowing lucerne under wheat had little effect on lucerne or sorghum yields.