Claim · model-written summary
Omitting Zn from balanced fertilization reduced maize grain yield by about 28%.
- Treatment
- omission of S, Zn, and Be0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- ∼28%e0
- Comparator
- balanced fertilizatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Compared to balanced fertilization, omission of S, Zn, and B reduced grain yield by an average of ∼34%, ∼28%, and ∼14%, respectively”
t0“maize”
Title
Sampson Agyin-Birikorang; Ignatius Tindjina; Raphael Adu-Gyamfi; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2022. doi:10.1080/01904167.2022.2027984
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation NPK-only maize fertilization yielded an average 3.6 t ha − 1 in Guinea savanna.
- Observation NPK-only maize fertilization yielded an average 2.5 t ha − 1 in Sudan savanna.
- Intervention effect Adding S, Zn and B to NPK increased maize yield 60% over NPK only in Sudan savanna.
- Intervention effect Adding S, Zn and B to NPK increased maize yield 64% over NPK only in Guinea savanna.
- Intervention effect Omitting S from balanced fertilization reduced maize grain yield by about 34%.
- Intervention effect Omitting B from balanced fertilization reduced maize grain yield by about 14%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend accounting for all limiting secondary and micronutrients in maize fertilizer recommendations.