Claim · model-written summary
Net income increased by 2.24% to 6.97% in subsoil tillage compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Treatment
- subsoil tillage treatmente6
- Outcome
- net incomee7
- Direction
- increasede7
- Value
- 2.24% to 6.97%e7
- Comparator
- shallow rotarye6
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Verbatim
e0“spring maize (Zea mays L.) to subsoil tillage depth when grown in the Western plain irrigation area of Inner Mongolia, China”
e6“compared with shallow rotary, the grain yields and water use efficiency increased by 0.7–8.9% and 1.93–18.49% in subsoil tillage treatment”
e7“resulting in the net income being increased by 2.24% to 6.97%”
Title
Maize Canopy Photosynthetic Efficiency, Plant Growth, and Yield Responses to Tillage Depth
Jiying Sun; Julin Gao; Zhigang Wang; et al. Agronomy 2018. doi:10.3390/agronomy9010003
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Subsoil tillage increased shoot dry matter accumulation compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Subsoil tillage gave a greater shoot/root ratio compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Subsoil tillage retained a greater leaf area index in each growth stage.
- Intervention effect Subsoil tillage increased leaf area duration, net assimilation rate and relative growth rate compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Subsoil tillage delayed the aging of the blade compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Grain yield increased by 0.7–8.9% in subsoil tillage compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency increased by 1.93–18.49% in subsoil tillage compared with shallow rotary tillage.
- Intervention effect Grain yield, water use efficiency and net income were highest under a subsoil tillage depth of 50 cm.