Claim · model-written summary
The later growth decline reduced the total growth increase achievable with GA.
- Taxon
- Sugarcanet0
- Treatment
- GAe1
- Outcome
- total growth increasese0
- Direction
- detractede0
- Qualifier
- growth reversione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Verbatim
e0“This growth reversion detracted from the total growth increases that otherwise might have been achieved”
e1“GA growth stimulation was followed by a reversion to less than normal growth”
t0“Sugarcane”
Title
Sugarcane Flower-Control Studies With Paraquat, Gibberellic Acid, and Sodium Meta-Silicate
Alex G. Alexander; R. Montalvo Zapata; Gene L. Spain; et al. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 1972. doi:10.46429/jaupr.v56i3.10826
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect GA alone reduced sugarcane flowering rates to 0.02 percent.
- Intervention effect Paraquat reduced flowering to about one-third of control levels.
- Intervention effect Si alone had no effect on flowering.
- Intervention effect Si reduced the flowering-control effectiveness of GA when combined.
- Intervention effect GA increased total green weight, stalk weight, and internode length.
- Intervention effect Paraquat decreased total green weight, stalk weight, and internode length.
- Intervention effect Si alone appeared to increase green and stalk weights, without statistical significance.
- Intervention effect Si reduced GA growth stimulation.
- Intervention effect Si lessened Paraquat growth suppression.
- Intervention effect GA increased sugar production.
- Intervention effect Paraquat decreased sugar production.
- Intervention effect Paraquat lessened the degree and duration of positive GA effects.
- Intervention effect Si alone had little effect on sugar production.
- Intervention effect Si buffered extremes in sugar production.
- Observation Early Paraquat leaf injury appeared more than compensated after about two months.
- Observation Tonnage losses from Paraquat foliar injury appeared permanent.
- Observation GA growth stimulation was followed by below-normal growth.
- Recommendation The authors proposed delayed Si application after GA to lessen growth decline.
- Recommendation The authors concluded that stimulating the apical meristem may prevent flowering more effectively than destroying foliage.