Claim · model-written summary
Full irrigation and high nitrogen inputs increased tillering enough to compensate for poor primary shoot establishment.
- Taxon
- SUGARCANEt0
- Treatment
- full irrigation and high inputs of nitrogen fertilisere0
- Outcome
- tilleringe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- poor primary shoot establishmente0
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Verbatim
e0“with full irrigation and high inputs of nitrogen fertiliser, tillering can be increased to the extent that poor primary shoot establishment can be compensated by the production of more tillers.”
t0“SUGARCANE”
Title
HIGH INPUT SUGARCANE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS CAN MASK THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POOR SOIL HEALTH
A. L. Garside; M. J. Bell; P. W. Moody; et al. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries archive of scientific and research publications (Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) 2007
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Breaking monoculture or fumigating sugarcane land enhances crop establishment.
- Association Better establishment often leads to higher cane and sugar yields.
- Intervention effect High inputs substantially reduced yield differences between break or fumigation treatments and monoculture.
- Observation Research found soil health in the Burdekin to be as much an issue as elsewhere.
- Mechanism Irrigation and high nitrogen inputs can mask the yield effect of poor soil health.
- Intervention effect With rotation breaks and soil carbon buildup, yields could be maintained at lower inputs.
- Recommendation The authors advise against using high inputs to mask poor soil health in sustainable sugarcane systems.