Claim · model-written summary
Breaking monoculture significantly increased sugarcane productivity.
- Taxon
- sugarcanee0
- Treatment
- breaking the current monoculturee0
- Outcome
- productivitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“productivity of the current sugarcane farming system can be increased significantly by soil fumigation or breaking the current monoculture”
Title
Nutrient dynamics and root health in sugarcane soils.
M. J. Bell; A. L. Garside; P. W. Moody; et al. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries archive of scientific and research publications (Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) 2002
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Soil fumigation significantly increased sugarcane productivity.
- Observation Treatments decreased cane-specific pathogen numbers.
- Observation Treatments increased beneficial biota in most cases.
- Observation Treatments increased mineral nitrogen concentrations in soil solution.
- Observation Treatments had little or no effect on soil concentrations and availability of P, K and Si.
- Mechanism Increased plant nutrient uptake was attributed to greater root surface area and soil exploitation.
- Recommendation Maintaining or increasing potassium and silicon concentration in plant biomass was proposed as an index of root function.