Claim · model-written summary
Herbicide seed treatments significantly increased sorghum grain yield and dry matter production.
- Treatment
- herbicide seed treatmentse0
- Outcome
- sorghum grain yield and dry matter productione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“herbicide seed treatments, particularly metsulfuron, reduced Striga emergence and significantly increased sorghum grain yield and dry matter production”
Title
Efficacy of Herbicide Seed Treatments for Controlling Striga Infestation of Sorghum
Mitchell R. Tuinstra; Souley Soumana; Kassim Al‐Khatib; et al. Crop Science 2009. doi:10.2135/cropsci2008.06.0357
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect High herbicide rates led to the fewest Striga attachments.
- Intervention effect High herbicide rates gave the greatest delay in Striga attachment.
- Observation Untreated sorghum plants died by flowering.
- Intervention effect Herbicide seed treatments reduced Striga emergence.
- Intervention effect Field seed treatments delayed Striga emergence.
- Intervention effect Field seed treatments yielded fewer emerged Striga plants.
- Recommendation The authors suggest herbicide seed treatments as a Striga management tool in sorghum.