Claim · model-written summary
Coastal and Suwannee Bermudagrasses used water more efficiently.
- Taxon
- Bermudagrasses
Cynodon dactylone0 - Material
- Coastal and Suwanneee0
- Outcome
- efficient in water usee0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- common Bermudagrass, Pensacola Bahiagrass, and Pangolagrasse0
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Verbatim
e0“Coastal and Suwannee Bermudagrasses were more drouth tolerant, more efficient in water use, and more dependable from year to year as evidenced by much lower wet‐year/dry‐year yield ratios than common Bermudagrass, Pensacola Bahiagrass, and Pangolagrass.”
Title
Studies of Drouth Tolerance and Water Use of Several Southern Grasses1
Glenn W. Burton; Gordon M. Prine; James E. Jackson Agronomy Journal 1957. doi:10.2134/agronj1957.00021962004900090010x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Coastal and Suwannee Bermudagrasses were more drought tolerant than the other listed grasses.
- Observation Coastal and Suwannee Bermudagrasses had lower wet-year to dry-year yield ratios.
- Intervention effect Fertilization raised water-use efficiency in all five grasses.
- Observation Three grasses needed fewer roots for nutrients than for water.
- Association Greenhouse drought tolerance correlated well with field results for six grasses.