Claim · model-written summary
Ryegrass root soak water lowered zoysiagrass leaf area, root length and root area.
- Treatment
- irrigated with water previously containing perennial ryegrass rootse0
- Interactor
- perennial ryegrass
Lolium perennee0weed - Outcome
- leaf area, and root length and areae0
- Direction
- lowere0
ZoysiaNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Zoysiagrass leaf area, and root length and area, were also lower when irrigated with water previously containing perennial ryegrass roots.”
Title
Alan J. Zuk; Jack D. Fry HortScience 2006. doi:10.21273/hortsci.41.3.818
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Ryegrass leaves at 12% soil weight reduced zoysiagrass seedling number by 20%.
- Intervention effect Ryegrass leaves at 23% soil weight reduced zoysiagrass seedling number by 26%.
- Intervention effect Ryegrass leaves at 12% soil weight reduced zoysiagrass root area and mass by 50%.
- Intervention effect A second soil amendment study found similar reductions regardless of glyphosate treatment of ryegrass.
- Observation Soil with ryegrass leaves at 12% weight had conductivity of 5.1 dS·m –1.
- Intervention effect Irrigation with ryegrass leaf or root soak water reduced zoysiagrass seedling emergence by more than 50%.
- Intervention effect Irrigation with ryegrass soak water lowered zoysiagrass root mass by up to 65%.