Claim · model-written summary
Damage reduced heads per plant.
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- damagee0
- Outcome
- heads per plante0
- Direction
- reductione0
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Verbatim
e0“The most detrimental effect of damage on yield was the reduction of heads per plant and kernel weight.”
t0“SPRING WHEAT”
Title
O. O. Olfert; M. K. Mukerji The Canadian Entomologist 1983. doi:10.4039/ent115629-6
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Association Damage type, timing and soil moisture influenced wheat growth response.
- Intervention effect Ground-level cutting produced the greatest biomass reduction.
- Intervention effect Ground-level cutting produced the greatest yield reduction.
- Intervention effect Late damage prevented recovery of lost biomass despite higher relative growth rates.
- Intervention effect Damaged wheat had higher relative growth rates than controls.
- Association Recovery was greatest at sites with the most available soil moisture.
- Intervention effect Damage reduced kernel weight.
- Intervention effect Seed number per head usually did not differ between damaged and control plants.