Claim · model-written summary
Treated wastewater did not adversely affect overall alfalfa forage quality.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- irrigation with treated wastewatere0
- Outcome
- forage qualitye0
- Direction
- did not show any adverse effectse0
- Comparator
- plants irrigated with normal watere1
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Verbatim
e0“irrigation with treated wastewater did not show any adverse effects on forage quality of alfalfa plants”
e1“plants irrigated with normal water”
Title
Walid Soufan; Nasser Al-Suhaibani; Peter Tillmann; et al. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 2020. doi:10.17957/ijab/15.1561
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Treated wastewater did not adversely affect alfalfa productivity across cultivars and seasons.
- Intervention effect Treated wastewater slightly decreased alfalfa forage protein content relative to normal water.
- Intervention effect Treated wastewater slightly decreased alfalfa forage fat content relative to normal water.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that alfalfa forage can be grown with treated wastewater.