Claim · model-written summary
Corn ear leaf potassium content in living mulch without potassium was below 1%.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- LM K− treatmente0
- Outcome
- K content of ear leavese0
- Value
- <1%e0
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Verbatim
e0“In the LM K− treatment the K content of ear leaves was <1% and the yield of corn shoots was less than that recorded in the other treatments.”
Title
Potassium nutrient status of corn declined in white clover living mulch
Shin DEGUCHI; Sunao UOZUMI; Eiko TOUNO; et al. Soil Science & Plant Nutrition 2010. doi:10.1111/j.1747-0765.2010.00517.x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Corn in the living mulch treatment without potassium showed leaf potassium deficiency symptoms.
- Intervention effect Living mulch significantly lowered corn ear leaf potassium content relative to conventional cultivation at silking.
- Intervention effect Living mulch significantly lowered corn ear leaf nitrogen content relative to conventional cultivation at silking.
- Intervention effect Corn shoot yield in living mulch without potassium was lower than in other treatments.
- Association Potassium was the nutrient most strongly related to corn yield in multiple regression.
- Mechanism The authors infer that white clover living mulch lowered corn potassium status and consequently yield.