Claim · model-written summary
Root length was 23% longer under phosphorus banding.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- P‐band treatmentse0
- Outcome
- root lengthse0
- Direction
- longere0
- Value
- 23%e0
- Comparator
- uniformly adequate P treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“Despite 23% longer root lengths in the P‐band treatments, P uptake per unit root length was 78% lower than in uniformly adequate P treatments.”
t0“wheat cultivars”
Title
Sheikh M.F. Rabbi; Chris N. Guppy; Matthew K. Tighe; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 2017. doi:10.1002/jpln.201600503
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect All wheat cultivars increased root length density three to nine times in a phosphorus band.
- Observation Root plasticity did not differ significantly among cultivars.
- Intervention effect Cultivars developed longer roots in response to the phosphorus band.
- Intervention effect Cultivars developed about 9% thinner roots in the phosphorus band.
- Observation Root response did not fully compensate for lower soil phosphorus status.
- Intervention effect Phosphorus uptake per root length was 78% lower with banding than with uniform phosphorus.
- Recommendation The authors recommend more research before selecting cultivars for increased root length density in nutrient patches.