Claim · model-written summary
Salinity before terminal spikelet differentiation reduced wheat spikelets per spike and tillers per plant.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- Salinity imposed prior to TSDe0
- Outcome
- number of spikelets per spike and the number of tillers per plante0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Salinity imposed prior to TSD reduced the number of spikelets per spike and the number of tillers per plant”
e1“wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.)”
Title
Time of Salt Stress Affects Growth and Yield Components of Irrigated Wheat
Leland E. Francois; Catherine M. Grieve; Eugene V. Maas; et al. Agronomy Journal 1994. doi:10.2134/agronj1994.00021962008600010019x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Continuous salinity significantly reduced wheat straw yield and aboveground biomass.
- Intervention effect Continuous salinity significantly reduced wheat spikelet, kernel and tiller counts.
- Intervention effect Continuous salinity significantly reduced individual wheat kernel weight and tiller spikes.
- Intervention effect Salinity after terminal spikelet differentiation significantly reduced wheat kernel number and weight.
- Intervention effect Moderately saline water substituted for good quality water during part of the season maintained total wheat grain yield.