Claim · model-written summary
Increasing NPS rate and row spacing increased panicle and thousand-kernel weight.
- Treatment
- NPS and interrow spacinge0
- Outcome
- panicle weight, and 1000- kernel weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench)”
e0“The increase in the rate of NPS and interrow spacing significantly increased leaf area, leaf area index, panicle weight, and 1000- kernel weight.”
Title
Abas, Aden Ahmed; Bayou, Walelign Demisie Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2025. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17929316
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Increasing row spacing and NPS rate prolonged flowering and maturity time.
- Intervention effect Increasing NPS rate and row spacing increased leaf area and leaf area index.
- Intervention effect Plant height increased as NPS rate increased.
- Intervention effect Plant height decreased as row spacing increased.
- Intervention effect The 150 kg NPS rate produced maximum grain yield of 3336.81 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect The 150 kg NPS rate produced maximum biomass weight of 7900.01 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Spacing of 65 cm gave highest grain yield, 2734.27 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Spacing of 65 cm gave highest biomass, 7490.12 kg ha-1.
- Observation The 150 kg NPS and 65 cm spacing treatment gave highest net benefit of 85,913 birr ha-1.
- Observation The 150 kg NPS and 65 cm spacing treatment gave maximum marginal return of 2534.22%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 150 kg ha-1 blended NPS with 65 cm spacing in comparable dry and semi-arid regions.