Claim · model-written summary
Winter wheat and winter barley were the predominant preceding crops across Germany.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Outcome
- dominating preceding cropse0
- Setting
- Germanye0
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Verbatim
t0“sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)”
e0“Throughout Germany, the dominating preceding crops in sugar beet cultivation were winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).”
Title
Heinz-Josef Koch; Kerrin Trimpler; Anna Jacobs; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2018. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00231
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation The dominant beet cropping interval was at least four years and varied by region.
- Intervention effect Cropping intervals of two, three and at least four years did not affect sugar yield.
- Intervention effect Sugar beet yielded 5% more after pea than after maize.
- Intervention effect Sugar yield did not differ significantly between pea and winter wheat preceding crops.
- Intervention effect Sugar yield did not differ significantly between wheat and maize preceding crops.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen availability was higher after pea.
- Intervention effect High nitrogen fertilizer doses did not fully compensate for reduced growth after maize.
- Recommendation The findings do not support major yield loss from reducing rotation interval from three to two years.
- Recommendation Short maize and sugar beet rotations might increase Rhizoctonia root rot risk.
- Recommendation Pea preceding crops may allow higher beet yield at lower nitrogen fertilizer doses.