Claim · model-written summary
Mean soybean yield loss from diseases correlated positively with mean statewide production and mean yield.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Outcome
- mean soybean yield losse0
- Direction
- positive linear correlatione0
- Qualifier
- across 21 yearse0
- Setting
- each statee0
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Verbatim
e0“positive linear correlation of mean soybean yield loss (in each state, due to all diseases considered in this study, across 21 years) with the mean state wide soybean production (MT), mean soybean yield (kg ha-1), and mean soybean harvest area (ha).”
Title
Dissecting the economic impact of soybean diseases in the United States over two decades
Ananda Y. Bandara; Dilooshi K. Weerasooriya; Carl A. Bradley; et al. PLoS ONE 2020. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231141
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Association State significantly affected total economic loss from soybean diseases.
- Association Year significantly affected total economic loss from soybean diseases.
- Association Pre- versus post-discovery of soybean rust significantly affected total economic loss.
- Association Region significantly affected total economic loss from soybean diseases.
- Association Zones based on yield, harvest area and production significantly affected total economic loss.
- Observation Soybean cyst nematode was among the most economically damaging diseases.
- Observation Charcoal rot was among the most economically damaging soybean diseases.
- Observation Seedling diseases were among the most economically damaging soybean diseases.
- Observation Soybean rust was among the least economically damaging diseases.
- Observation Bacterial blight was among the least economically damaging soybean diseases.
- Observation Southern blight was among the least economically damaging soybean diseases.
- Association Mean soybean disease loss was 51% greater in state-years after soybean rust discovery than before.
- Observation Total U.S. soybean disease economic loss from 1996 to 2016 was $95.48 billion.
- Observation Northern U.S. soybean disease loss totaled $80.89 billion.
- Observation Southern U.S. soybean disease loss totaled $14.59 billion.
- Observation Average annual U.S. soybean disease economic loss reached nearly $4.55 billion.
- Observation Approximately 85% of soybean disease economic losses occurred in the northern U.S.
- Association Low yield, harvest or production zones had significantly lower mean disease economic losses than high zones.
- Association Mean soybean yield loss from diseases correlated positively with mean soybean harvest area.