Claim · model-written summary
Magnesium fertiliser increased plant magnesium concentration and total content.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0 - Treatment
- Magnesium fertilisere0
- Outcome
- concentration of magnesium in the plants and their total contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
t0“sugar beet”
e0“Magnesium fertiliser increased the concentration of magnesium in the plants and their total content”
Title
A. P. Draycott; R. F. Farley Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1971. doi:10.1002/jsfa.2740221102
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Sodium-treated plants contained 145 kg/ha sodium in August.
- Observation Untreated plants contained 80 kg/ha sodium in August.
- Observation Soil sodium and potassium losses equaled crop uptake.
- Intervention effect Sodium increased sugar beet leaf area index and total dry matter.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased sugar beet leaf area index and total dry matter.
- Intervention effect Sodium increased average sugar yield by 0·5 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased average sugar yield by 0·68 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Irrigated plants had slightly fewer leaves after late July.
- Intervention effect Sodium treatment increased dry matter partitioning to roots.
- Observation Sodium and irrigation effects were additive.
- Intervention effect Magnesium fertiliser did not affect growth.
- Intervention effect Magnesium fertiliser did not affect uptake of other cations.
- Intervention effect Magnesium fertiliser did not affect final yield.
- Mechanism The authors attribute sodium yield gains to early leaf area and root dry matter partitioning.
- Mechanism The authors attribute irrigation effects partly to increased leaf area and greatly increased nutrient uptake.