Claim · model-written summary
Lime application increased alfalfa herbage yield.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- Lime applicatione0
- Outcome
- herbage yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Lime application significantly increased the root growth, nodulation, leaf retention, leaf to stem ratio, herbage yield, and crude protein content of alfalfa.”
Title
Harsharn Singh Grewal; Rex Williams Journal of Plant Nutrition 2003. doi:10.1081/pln-120022381
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect Lime application increased alfalfa root growth.
- Intervention effect Lime application increased alfalfa nodulation.
- Intervention effect Lime application increased alfalfa leaf retention.
- Intervention effect Lime application increased alfalfa leaf to stem ratio.
- Intervention effect Lime application increased alfalfa crude protein content.
- Intervention effect Aluminum (Al) shoot concentration declined from 93 mg kg−1 DM to 45 mg kg−1 DM with liming.
- Intervention effect manganese (Mn) shoot concentration declined from 74 mg kg−1 DM to 59 mg kg−1 DM with liming.
- Intervention effect iron (Fe) shoot concentration declined from 92 mg kg−1 DM to 76 mg kg−1 DM with liming.
- Intervention effect Liming increased shoot calcium concentration.
- Intervention effect Liming had little effect on shoot phosphorus (P) concentration.
- Intervention effect Liming had little effect on shoot zinc (Zn) concentration.
- Intervention effect Y8804 alfalfa yield increased by 32% after lime application.
- Intervention effect Aurora alfalfa yield increased by 31% after lime application.
- Intervention effect other cultivars alfalfa yield increased by 11–22% after lime application.
- Association Alfalfa cultivars differed in root growth, nodulation, leaf drop.
- Association Alfalfa cultivars differed in leaf to stem ratio, crude protein content, and elemental composition of shoots.
- Association Better-performing unlimed alfalfa cultivars had lower shoot Al, Mn, and Fe concentrations than other cultivars.