Claim · model-written summary
Corn grain responded vigorously and nonlinearly to fertilization.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- fertilizatione1
- Outcome
- corn graine0
- Direction
- vigorouslye0
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Verbatim
e0“corn grain responds vigorously and nonlinearly”
e1“in response to fertilization”
Title
Morgan E. Gallagher; William C. Hockaday; Caroline A. Masiello; et al. Environmental Science & Technology 2011. doi:10.1021/es103252s
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Biomass responses to fertilization differed across biochemical classes and tissues.
- Intervention effect Corn residue carbohydrate yield increased 25% at 202 kg N ha(-1).
- Intervention effect Residue lignin yield increased almost twice as much as carbohydrate yield with nitrogen.
- Intervention effect Fertilization increased corn residue decomposability.
- Recommendation Authors conclude fertilization benefits decline after ecosystem nitrogen demand is met.
- Recommendation Heavy fertilizer gives minimal grain benefit and almost no residue carbohydrate benefit while degrading feedstock quality and soil carbon capacity.