Claim · model-written summary
Maize near frequently pruned grass barriers had low leaf N concentrations under positive water balance.
- Treatment
- frequently pruned grass barrierse2
- Outcome
- N leaf concentrationse2
- Direction
- lowe2
- Qualifier
- under positive water balance conditionse2
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Verbatim
t0“Identifying resource competition in maize-based soil conservation systems using13C and15N isotopic discrimination”
e2“Similar low N leaf concentrations and elevated δ13C values were observed in maize growing close to frequently pruned grass barriers under positive water balance conditions”
Title
Vu Dinh Tuan; Thomas Hilger; Georg Cadisch Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2015. doi:10.1080/03650340.2015.1074185
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Abundance of water and limited nitrogen availability were associated with low grain N concentrations in maize.
- Association Abundance of water and limited nitrogen availability were associated with enriched leaf δ13C in maize.
- Association Abundance of water and limited nitrogen availability were associated with reduced maize grain yield.
- Association Maize near frequently pruned grass barriers had elevated leaf δ13C values.
- Mechanism Yield decline in grass-barrier rows is attributed mainly to nitrogen competition.
- Association Maize from rows next to grass barriers had enriched δ15N values, indicating reliance on soil N.
- Intervention effect Vigorous cover crop growth under minimum tillage resulted in maize yield decline due to N competition.
- Intervention effect Relay-cropped legumes under minimum tillage gave a maize yield similar to the control.
- Intervention effect Relay-cropped legumes gave leaf N concentration, δ13C and δ15N similar to the control in maize.