Claim · model-written summary
grain moisture content of plants bent 2 weeks before PM was lower than in unbent plants
- Material
- cv. Aburotiae0
- Treatment
- plants bent 2 weeks before PMe2
- Outcome
- Grain moisture contente1
- Direction
- lowere1
- Value
- 23.3e2
- Comparator
- unbent plantse2
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Verbatim
e0“maize plants (cv. Aburotia)”
e1“Grain moisture content, cob infestation with adult insects, and extent of lodging were, at harvest, significantly lower (P=0.05) in bent plants than in unbent ones”
e2“Moisture content of grains from plants bent 2 weeks before PM, at PM, and 2 weeks after PM, for example, were, at harvest, 23.3, 25.3, and 31.7 per cent, respectively, compared to 38.3 per cent recorded for unbent plants”
Title
RT Awuah Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science 1998. doi:10.4314/gjas.v31i2.1927
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect grain moisture content of plants bent at PM was lower than in unbent plants
- Intervention effect grain moisture content of plants bent 2 weeks after PM was lower than in unbent plants
- Intervention effect extent of lodging on plots with bent plants was lower than on plots with unbent plants
- Intervention effect cob infestation with adult insects was lower in bent plants than in unbent plants
- Intervention effect cob infestation with stemborers/earworms, incidence of mouldiness and grain damage per cob were lower in bent plants
- Intervention effect dry weight of marketable grains per cob was highest in plants bent at PM
- Intervention effect dry weight of marketable grains per cob was lowest in plants bent 2 weeks earlier
- Recommendation bending over of maize plants has crop protection value
- Recommendation bending maize plants at physiological maturity combines reduced pre-harvest grain moisture and field losses with maximum grain yield
- Association early bending decreased grain moisture, insect infestation and lodging among bent plants