Claim · model-written summary
Simazine increased wheat nitrate reductase activity.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Simazinee0
- Outcome
- nitrate reductase activitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Winter Wheat”
e0“Simazine increased nitrate reductase activity and nitrate concentration, and decreased glutamine synthetase activity.”
Title
Nitrogen Use in Winter Wheat in Response to Systematic Pesticides1
Joseph L. Moyer; Gary M. Paulsen Agronomy Journal 1977. doi:10.2134/agronj1977.00021962006900010015x
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Simazine increased wheat nitrate concentration.
- Intervention effect Simazine decreased wheat glutamine synthetase activity.
- Intervention effect Autumn pesticide treatments did not affect wheat forage yield or protein content.
- Intervention effect Lower simazine rates applied at anthesis decreased wheat grain yields.
- Intervention effect Higher simazine rates at all three spring stages decreased wheat grain yields.
- Intervention effect Simazine treatments that reduced grain yield increased wheat grain protein concentration.
- Intervention effect Guthion applied in autumn increased wheat grain protein concentration.
- Intervention effect Other pesticide treatments had no effect on wheat protein or yield.
- Intervention effect Simazine at anthesis significantly decreased wheat grain test weights.
- Mechanism The authors attribute lower grain yield and higher protein concentration to detrimental photosynthate accumulation effects of simazine and no direct foliar effect on nitrogen assimilation.
- Mechanism The authors attribute decreased wheat grain test weight to floret sterility and undeveloped grains.