Claim · model-written summary
Lime gave a large growth response in pots on soil from high S/A plots at Merredin and Wongan Hills
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- limee0
- Outcome
- growth responsee0
- Direction
- increaseinferrede0
- Qualifier
- on soil from the high S/A plots at Merredin and Wongan Hillse0
- Setting
- potse0
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Verbatim
t0“reduction in wheat yields”
e0“In pots, on soil from the high S/A plots at Merredin and Wongan Hills a large growth response to lime was obtained, but no growth responses to Ca, Mg or K”
Title
MG Mason Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 1980. doi:10.1071/ea9800210
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate lowered soil pH and exchangeable bases at all three sites
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate increased exchangeable H in the soil at all three sites
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate markedly increased available Al at Merredin and Wongan Hills, to a much lesser degree than at Beverley
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate increased available Mn at Beverley
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate was associated with reduced wheat yields in two of three trials
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate increased plant Mn levels at Wongan Hills and Beverley
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate showed no consistent effect on plant Al levels
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate reduced plant Mo levels at all sites
- Association Reductions in soil Mg and K are reflected in lower contents of these nutrients in wheat tops
- Observation Ca content in wheat tops was affected only at Merredin
- Intervention effect Calcium, magnesium or potassium gave no growth response in pots on high S/A soil
- Association The lime response was associated with decreased Al in plants at both sites
- Association The lime response was associated with increased P at Merredin
- Mechanism The authors consider Al toxicity the most likely cause of the yield reductions
- Mechanism The authors suggest K and Mo levels could be marginal for healthy growth of wheat