Claim · model-written summary
Mulching decreased maize LAI and LAD before VT.
- Treatment
- no tillage with wheat straw mulchinge0
- Outcome
- leaf area index (LAI) and leaf area duration (LAD)e0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Maize”
e0“no tillage with wheat straw mulching decreased the leaf area index (LAI) and leaf area duration (LAD) of maize before the VT stage”
Title
Yao Guo; Hong Fan; Pan Li; et al. Plants 2023. doi:10.3390/plants12061358
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect No tillage with wheat straw mulching and straw standing increased maize grain yield more than conventional tillage with incorporation and the control.
- Intervention effect Mulching gave higher yield than straw standing.
- Intervention effect Mulching maintained higher LAI and LAD after VT.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased chlorophyll relative content from VT to R4 by 7.9-17.5%.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased net photosynthetic rate by 7.7-19.2%.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased transpiration rate by 5.5-12.1%.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased leaf water use efficiency by 6.2-6.7% from R2 to R4.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased maize grain yield by 15.6% over control.
- Mechanism The authors attribute higher yield to coordinated increases in ear number, grains per ear, and 100-grain weight.
- Recommendation The authors recommend no tillage with wheat straw mulching to enhance maize grain yield in arid conditions.