Claim · model-written summary
Witchweed reduced sorghum host-shoot yield by about 70% at low nutrient levels.
- Treatment
- infested with witchweede2
- Interactor
- Witchweed
Striga asiaticae1parasite - Outcome
- host-shoot yieldse1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Value
- about 70%e1
- Qualifier
- at the low nutrient levelse1
- Comparator
- not infested with witchweede2
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Witchweed reduced host-shoot yields by about 70% at the low nutrient levels and by about 45% at the highest nutrient level”
e2“Sorghum was grown in Eustis loamy sand, either infested or not infested with witchweed”
Title
Mineral Nutrition and the Parasite-Host Relationship of Witchweed
G. H. Egley Weed Science 1971. doi:10.1017/s0043174500050591
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Witchweed reduced sorghum host-shoot yield by about 45% at the highest nutrient level.
- Observation Witchweed produced seed at all nutrient levels on sorghum.
- Observation Sorghum host produced seed only at the highest nutrient level.
- Association Increased nutrition also increased witchweed yields on sorghum.
- Intervention effect Early witchweed attack was more destructive to the sorghum host than a late attack, regardless of nutrient level.
- Intervention effect Removing the host shoot inhibited witchweed growth.
- Intervention effect Feeding sucrose to witchweed did not restore parasite growth after host shoot removal.
- Intervention effect Mineral nutrients were toxic to the detached witchweed parasite.
- Intervention effect High relative humidity around witchweed protected it from nutrient toxicity.
- Intervention effect High relative humidity enhanced survival of the detached witchweed parasite.
- Intervention effect High relative humidity markedly inhibited witchweed growth in the intact sorghum parasite-host relationship.