Claim · model-written summary
Mixed salt irrigation at EC 6 depressed corn top yield by 26% relative to tap water.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayst0 - Treatment
- mixed‐salt waters (EC = 3 & 6)e0
- Outcome
- top growthe0
- Direction
- depressionse0
- Value
- 26%e0
- Comparator
- tap watere0
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Verbatim
e0“Yield depressions of top growth caused by mixed‐salt waters (EC = 3 & 6) were 17 and 26%, respectively, compared to yields obtained with tap water”
t0“corn”
Title
Effect of excess MgSO4 or Mg(HCO3)2 in irrigation water on corn growth
W. T. Franklin; J. S. Olsen; P. N. Soltanpour Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 1991. doi:10.1080/00103629109368393
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Mixed salt irrigation at EC 3 depressed corn top yield by 17% relative to tap water.
- Intervention effect MgSO4 water at EC 1 reduced corn tops by 19% more than mixed salts at equivalent salinity.
- Intervention effect MgSO4 water at EC 3 reduced corn tops by 38% more than mixed salts at equivalent salinity.
- Intervention effect MgSO4 water at EC 6 reduced corn tops by 59% more than mixed salts at equivalent salinity.
- Intervention effect Mg(HCO3)2 at EC 1 reduced corn top growth by 45% more than mixed salts.
- Intervention effect Mg(HCO3)2 at EC 3 reduced corn top growth by 87% more than mixed salts.
- Intervention effect Mg(HCO3)2 depressed corn top growth more than twice as much as MgSO4.
- Observation Corn root growth depression was similar to top growth depression.
- Association Leaf Ca:Mg ratio was related to its ratio in soil solution.
- Intervention effect Leaf calcium and magnesium concentrations were nearly the same under Mg(HCO3)2 and MgSO4 at EC 1.
- Observation Leaf Mg:Ca ratio did not explain yield differences between magnesium salts.
- Mechanism The authors suggested nutrient imbalance and pH 9 could explain lower yields under Mg(HCO3)2.