Claim · model-written summary
Early sowing produced significantly more flowering nodes than late sowing, 9.0 versus 6.1.
- Taxon
- chickpeas
Cicer arietinume0 - Treatment
- early sowinge1
- Outcome
- number of flowering nodese1
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 9.0e1
- Qualifier
- 6.1e1
- Comparator
- late sowinge1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Kabuli chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.)”
e1“The early sowing also had a significantly higher number of flowering nodes (9.0) than the late sowing (6.1)”
Title
T. I. Verghis; G. D. Hill; B. A. McKenzie 1993
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Mean chickpea seed yield was 305 g/m2.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen did not increase chickpea seed yield.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen significantly decreased mean chickpea seed weight.
- Observation July-sown inoculated chickpeas without nitrogen produced 423 g/m2 of seed.
- Intervention effect Rhizobium inoculation increased mean seed yield by 44%.
- Intervention effect Inoculation increased chickpea pods per plant and seeds per plant.
- Intervention effect One month after flowering, early-sown chickpeas had 38% more pods than late-sown chickpeas.
- Observation Early-sown chickpea pod number declined from 41.9 to 31.3 pods per plant between two months after flowering and harvest.
- Observation Late-sown chickpea pod number did not decline between the corresponding dates.
- Observation Early sowing flowered at 139 days.
- Observation Late sowing flowered at 72 days.
- Intervention effect At 50% flowering, 45 kg N/ha produced 8.8 flowering nodes per plant, versus 6.3 with 0 kg N/ha.