Claim · model-written summary
Night irrigation increased seed cotton yield by 2.95-4.31%.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- irrigation during the nighte0
- Outcome
- seed cotton yielde0
- Direction
- improvinge0
- Value
- 2.95-4.31%e0
- Comparator
- the same water temperaturee0
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Verbatim
e0“At the same water temperature, irrigation during the night increased the number of bolls per plant and the single boll weight, improving the seed cotton yield by 2.95-4.31%.”
Title
Xiaodi Wu; Zhenhua Wang; Li Guo; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2023. doi:10.1002/jsfa.12648
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Optimal irrigation water temperature for photosynthesis was 25.7-28.7 °C.
- Intervention effect Water warming increased biomass allocation to the stem.
- Intervention effect Water warming increased nitrogen allocation to stems and leaves.
- Intervention effect Nighttime irrigation enhanced allocation responses.
- Intervention effect Water warming increased bolls per plant.
- Intervention effect Water warming reduced single boll weight.
- Intervention effect Water warming increased seed cotton yield by 5.88-11.46%.
- Intervention effect Night irrigation increased bolls per plant at the same water temperature.
- Intervention effect Night irrigation increased single boll weight at the same water temperature.
- Intervention effect NI25 increased yield by 14.13-14.90% against CK.
- Recommendation The authors identify NI25 as the best yield-increasing combination.