Claim · model-written summary
Without fungicide use, about 0.93 Mt CO2 eq. would be emitted to keep UK grain production at 15 Mt if displaced land were other arable crops or set-aside.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume5 - Treatment
- Without fungicide usee5
- Outcome
- would be emitted to maintain annual UK grain production at 15 Mte5
- Direction
- increaseinferrede5
- Value
- 0·93 Mt CO 2 eq.e5
- Qualifier
- if the additional land required for wheat production displaced other UK arable crops/set asidee5
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Verbatim
e5“Without fungicide use, an additional 0·93 Mt CO 2 eq. would be emitted to maintain annual UK grain production at 15 Mt, if the additional land required for wheat production displaced other UK arable crops/set aside”
Title
P. M. Berry; D. R. Kindred; N. D. Paveley Plant Pathology 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2008.01899.x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Fungicides increased wheat yields by an average of 1.78 t ha−1 across cultivars.
- Intervention effect Fungicides reduced GHG emissions per tonne of wheat grain from 386 to 327 kg CO2 eq.
- Association The yield gain from fungicides was negatively correlated with cultivar resistance to septoria leaf blotch.
- Intervention effect GHG emissions of fungicide-treated cultivars were always lower than those of untreated cultivars.
- Observation The GHG cost of displacing grassland or natural vegetation for wheat would be much greater.
- Intervention effect Additional emissions would be reduced substantially if cultivars had more effective septoria leaf blotch resistance.
- Observation GHG emissions associated with UK fungicide use were calculated at 0.06 Mt CO2 eq. per annum.
- Intervention effect Eliminating diseases completely through resistance or better fungicides could theoretically reduce emissions to 313 kg CO2 eq. per tonne of grain.