Claim · model-written summary
All 2,4-D rates reduced root weight.
- Taxon
- sugarbeets
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- All rates of 2,4-De1
- Outcome
- root weighte1
- Direction
- reducede1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“sugarbeets (Beta vulgaris L. ‘Mono Hy D2’)”
e1“All rates of 2,4-D reduced the components of sucrose yield (percentage sucrose, percentage purity, and root weight)”
Title
Response of Sugarbeets(Beta vulgaris)to Sublethal Rates of 2,4-D
E. E. Schweizer Weed Science 1978. doi:10.1017/s0043174500064699
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect The highest rate on 12-leaf plants caused the greatest top-growth reduction.
- Intervention effect All 2,4-D rates reduced percentage sucrose.
- Intervention effect All 2,4-D rates reduced percentage purity.
- Intervention effect Combined component reductions significantly reduced recoverable sucrose.
- Intervention effect 0.017 kg/ha 2,4-D reduced recoverable sucrose yield 6.8%.
- Intervention effect 0.035 kg/ha 2,4-D reduced recoverable sucrose yield 7.8%.
- Intervention effect 0.07 kg/ha 2,4-D reduced recoverable sucrose yield 13.2%.