Claim · model-written summary
Increasing density, nitrogen and irrigation decreased lower canopy LAI and light interception.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Increasing planting density, nitrogen, and irrigatione0
- Outcome
- leaf area index (LAI) and light interceptione0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Increasing planting density, nitrogen, and irrigation improved the leaf area index (LAI) and light interception at the upper and middle canopy, but decreased it at the lower canopy”
t0“wheat”
Title
Yanmei Gao; Qi Wang; Yang Liu; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2025. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109362
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Optimal density, nitrogen and irrigation reduced ineffective tillers at flowering.
- Intervention effect Optimal density, nitrogen and irrigation increased upper and middle layer spike number.
- Intervention effect Optimal management reduced population CV and increased uniformity.
- Intervention effect Optimal management increased population uniformity.
- Intervention effect Increasing density, nitrogen and irrigation promoted grain yield.
- Intervention effect Increasing density, nitrogen and irrigation promoted population biomass.
- Intervention effect Increasing density reduced single-stem biomass and grain dry weight.
- Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen and irrigation improved single-stem biomass and grain dry weight.
- Intervention effect Increasing density, nitrogen and irrigation improved upper and middle canopy LAI and light interception.
- Observation Flag and penultimate leaves had more chlorophyll than the top third leaf.
- Observation Biomass and sugar content declined from upper to lower layers.
- Observation Grains per spike and average grain weight declined toward lower layers.
- Intervention effect Increasing planting density decreased spike length, sugar content and dry matter in spikes.
- Intervention effect Increasing planting density improved these indicators in stems.
- Intervention effect Increasing planting density decreased grains per spike.
- Intervention effect Increasing irrigation improved spike indicators.