Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal clover did not grow much faster than non-mycorrhizal clover, probably because of competition for light from neighbouring ryegrasses.
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizale2
- Outcome
- grow much fastere2
- Direction
- did not grow much fastere2
- Qualifier
- probably because of competition for light from neighbouring ryegrassese2
- Comparator
- non‐mycorrhizal clovere2
Trifolium
LoliumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“Mycorrhizal clover did not grow much faster than non‐mycorrhizal clover, probably because of competition for light from neighbouring ryegrasses”
Title
J. R. Crush New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 1995. doi:10.1080/00288233.1995.9513131
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect VA mycorrhizas increased phosphate acquisition by white clover relative to non-mycorrhizal clover in a phosphorus-deficient soil.
- Association The benefit of mycorrhizas to white clover was greatest when competition from ryegrass was severe.
- Intervention effect When the soil was fertilised with phosphate, clover yields increased.
- Intervention effect When the soil was fertilised with phosphate, ryegrass yields increased.
- Intervention effect Non-mycorrhizal clover plants outyielded mycorrhizal plants when the soil was fertilised with phosphate.
- Recommendation VAM linkages between clover and grass roots will probably negate any benefits to clover of introducing elite VAM fungi to pasture soils.
- Recommendation Genetic manipulation of the host plant response to VAM may be a more profitable way of improving phosphate nutrition of white clover in mixed swards.