Claim · model-written summary
Leaves without applied nitrogen reached photosynthetic rates as high as nitrogen-treated leaves.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Treatment
- without applied Ne0
- Outcome
- Rates of photosynthesise0
- Direction
- as high ase0
- Comparator
- those receiving Ne0
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Verbatim
e0“Rates of photosynthesis in leaves of plants grown without applied N reached levels as high as those receiving N in all experiments.”
t0“potatoes”
Title
D. M. Firman; E. J. Allen The Journal of Agricultural Science 1988. doi:10.1017/s0021859600082848
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