Claim · model-written summary
Coupling pre-sowing seed treatment with foliar fertilization may effect a considerable fertilizer economy in soybean.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Treatment
- coupling pre‐sowing seed treatment with foliar fertilizatione7
- Outcome
- fertilizer economye7
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Verbatim
e0“Field trial studies were carried out to find out whether performance of soybean could be improved”
e7“It is suggested that a considerable fertilizer economy may be effected by coupling pre‐sowing seed treatment with foliar fertilization”
Title
P. Sathiyamoorthy; M. Vivekanandan Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 1988. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.1988.tb00338.x
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with salts resulted in better development of the root and shoot system of soybean than the control.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with KNO 3 increased soybean dry matter production over the control.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with NaNO 3 increased soybean dry matter production over the control.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with DAP increased soybean dry matter production over the control.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with NaNO 3 increased soybean seed yield.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with KNO 3 increased soybean seed yield.
- Intervention effect Pre-sowing seed treatment with DAP increased soybean seed yield.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray with KNO 3 moderately increased soybean growth over the control.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray with thiourea moderately increased soybean growth over the control.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray with DAP moderately increased soybean growth over the control.
- Intervention effect Seed yield of soybean increased significantly by 56-70% in all treatments except NaCl spray.
- Intervention effect The number of soybean pods per plant increased by 41-63% in all treatments except NaCl spray.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of nutrients increased soybean protein yield.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of nutrients did not affect soybean oil content.
- Association The number of existing soybean nodules was reduced in both control and treated plants at soil pH 8.4.