Claim · model-written summary
Higher total water supply decreased stem digestibility.
- Taxon
- lucerne
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- increasing total water supplye0
- Outcome
- in vitro digestibility of leaf and stem fractionse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“The in vitro digestibility of leaf and stem fractions decreased with increasing total water supply”
t0“lucerne”
Title
RW Snaydon Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 1972. doi:10.1071/ar9720253
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect More total water increased shoot phosphorus concentration by 35%.
- Intervention effect Total water supply did not significantly affect shoot nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Higher total water supply decreased leaf digestibility.
- Intervention effect Increasing water supply decreased the proportion of highly digestible leaf and flower fractions.
- Intervention effect Shoot digestibility declined from 65% at 0.24 Epan to 55% at 0.58 Epan.
- Intervention effect Water application frequency had no significant effect on phosphorus concentration.
- Intervention effect Water application frequency had no significant effect on nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Water application frequency had no significant effect on in vitro digestibility.