Claim · model-written summary
Tiller number increase rate during the initial recovery phase was greater than control by 38%
- Taxon
- Bromus catharticus
Bromus catharticuse0 - Treatment
- 28-day water deficite3
- Outcome
- tiller numbere3
- Direction
- greater thane3
- Value
- 38e3
- Comparator
- control ratese3
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Verbatim
e0“Recovery of rates of leaf emergence, leaf extension, tiller number, leaf number, leaf area and shoot dry weight per plant following water deficits lasting for between 10 and 28 days was measured in Bromus catharticus in a controlled environment”
e3“During an initial recovery phase which followed the 28-day water deficit, and which lasted 20 days from rewatering, the rates of increase in tiller number, leaf number, and leaf area per plant were greater than control rates by 38, 48 and 51%, respectively”
Title
Recovery Growth Following Water Deficits of Different Duration in Prairie Grass
ACP Chu; HG Mcpherson; G Halligan Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 1979. doi:10.1071/pp9790255
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Leaf extension rate recovered to the control rate within 4-6 days of rewatering after water deficits
- Intervention effect Leaf extension rate exceeded the control rate for up to 28 days after rewatering
- Intervention effect The maximum leaf extension rate of individual leaves during recovery was up to 20% higher than in well watered control plants
- Intervention effect Leaf number increase rate during the initial recovery phase was greater than control by 48%
- Intervention effect Leaf area increase rate during the initial recovery phase was greater than control by 51%
- Observation Rates of yield components normalized after the initial recovery phase
- Observation Shoot dry matter accumulation rate showed relatively small differences among treatments
- Association Final shoot dry weight was approximately proportional to the number of non-drought days
- Association Day-time leaf water potentials were higher than -1400 kPa on non-drought days