Claim · model-written summary
Changing sowing density from common practice did not increase grain yields.
- Taxon
- Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- reducing or increasing sowing densitye0
- Outcome
- grain yieldse0
- Comparator
- S cfpe0
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Verbatim
e0“reducing or increasing sowing density compared to S cfp did not reduce immobilization (and losses) of fertilizer N and did not result in increased fertilizer N use efficiency or grain yields.”
t0“Winter Wheat”
Title
K. Blankenau; H.‐W. Olfs Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2001. doi:10.1046/j.1439-037x.2001.00468.x
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation At GS 25 plus 15 days, non-recovered nitrogen reached 33 kg per hectare at the lower nitrogen rate.
- Observation At GS 25 plus 15 days, non-recovered nitrogen reached 74 kg per hectare at the higher nitrogen rate.
- Association Sowing density did not affect non-recovered nitrogen.
- Observation Later remineralization indicated earlier non-recovered nitrogen had been immobilized.
- Association Nitrogen uptake from later applications was lowest at low sowing density.
- Association Non-recovered nitrogen at harvest was highest at low sowing density.
- Association Non-recovered nitrogen was similar at common and high sowing densities.
- Observation Highest grain yields occurred at common sowing density with 43 + 30 + 60 kg N per hectare dressings.
- Association High sowing density yielded less grain than common sowing density.
- Association Changing sowing density from common practice did not reduce fertilizer nitrogen immobilization and losses.
- Association Changing sowing density from common practice did not improve fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency.