Claim · model-written summary
SRI had greater root volume and dry mass than the conventional method.
- Taxon
- Rice
Oryza sativat0 - Treatment
- SRIe0
- Outcome
- Root volume, dry masse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 7-25%e0
- Comparator
- conventional methode0
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Verbatim
e0“Root volume, dry mass and dehydrogenase activity in soil enhanced by 7-25% (measure of microbial activity) were found to be higher in SRI, compared with conventional method”
t0“Rice”
Title
R. Mahender Kumar; LV Subba Rao; V Ramesh Babu; et al. 2013
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect SRI produced 7-20% higher grain yield than traditional irrigated transplanted rice.
- Intervention effect SRI had higher nutrient use efficiency than conventional transplanting.
- Intervention effect SRI did not deplete soil available nutrients after two seasons.
- Observation Better tillering varieties and named hybrids had higher grain yield than moderate tillering varieties and scented cultivars.
- Intervention effect SRI had higher soil dehydrogenase activity than conventional management.
- Intervention effect SRI reduced seed rate by 80%.
- Intervention effect SRI reduced water requirement by 29%.
- Intervention effect SRI reduced growth duration by 8-12 days.
- Intervention effect SRI reduced nursery area.
- Intervention effect SRI enhanced water and per day productivity.
- Observation SRI helped produce more and higher quality seed.
- Recommendation The authors recommend SRI where water is scarce.