Claim · model-written summary
Superphosphate greatly increased wheat yields.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- superphosphate treatmente0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Both conventional management and the superphosphate treatment greatly increased yields but reduced colonisation by mycorrhizal fungi.”
t0“wheat”
Title
Grain mineral concentrations and yield of wheat grown under organic and conventional management
MH Ryan; JW Derrick; PR Dann Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2004. doi:10.1002/jsfa.1634
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Conventional management greatly increased wheat yields.
- Intervention effect Conventional management reduced mycorrhizal colonisation of wheat.
- Intervention effect Superphosphate reduced mycorrhizal colonisation of wheat.
- Observation Grain N, K and Mg concentrations showed only minor variations.
- Observation Grain Ca, S and Fe concentrations showed only minor variations.
- Intervention effect Conventional wheat grain had lower Zn and Cu than organic grain.
- Intervention effect Conventional wheat grain had higher Mn and P than organic grain.
- Mechanism Soluble P fertilisers were interpreted to increase P uptake.
- Mechanism Reduced mycorrhizal colonisation under soluble P fertilisers was interpreted to reduce Zn uptake.
- Mechanism Reduced mycorrhizal colonisation under soluble P fertilisers was interpreted to enhance Mn uptake.
- Mechanism Lower Cu was attributed to dilution in heavier crops.
- Mechanism Past lime applications on the organic farm were interpreted to decrease Mn availability.
- Observation Grain mineral variations had nutritional implications primarily favouring organic wheat grain.
- Intervention effect Organic management did not induce dramatic grain mineral concentration increases.
- Intervention effect Eliminating soluble fertilisers did not induce dramatic grain mineral concentration increases.
- Association Organic management was associated with yield reductions of 17–84 per cent due to P limitation and weeds.