Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation did not change the grass to legume proportion.
- Taxon
- Setaria anceps/Desmodium intortume1
- Treatment
- defoliatione2
- Outcome
- proportion of grass to legumee0
- Direction
- unaffectede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“but the proportion of grass to legume was unaffected”
e1“Setaria anceps/Desmodium intortum swards”
e2“Dry matter production during the experiment and over the growing season increased with cutting height and with interval between defoliations”
Title
MM Ludlow; DA Charles-Edwards Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 1980. doi:10.1071/ar9800673
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Sward dry matter production increased with cutting height.
- Intervention effect Sward dry matter production increased with the interval between defoliations.
- Association Defoliation effects on dry matter production resembled estimates from integrated canopy photosynthesis.
- Intervention effect Defoliation height and frequency had no effect on canopy light extinction coefficient.
- Intervention effect Defoliation height and frequency did not affect leaf photosynthetic characteristics overall.
- Observation Leaf photosynthetic rates appeared depressed during the first one to two weeks after defoliation.
- Mechanism Defoliation effects on dry matter production operated mainly through leaf area index and light interception.