Claim · model-written summary
Mulched spring wheat had significantly lower grain yield than non-mulched wheat in 1998.
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- mulched treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Grain yieldse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- in 1998e0
- Comparator
- non-mulched treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“Grain yields were significantly lower in mulched treatments, than in the non-mulched treatments in 1998”
t0“spring wheat”
Title
Plastic Film Mulch Effect on Spring Wheat in a Semiarid Region
Feng-Min Li; Jun Wang; Jin-Zhang Xu Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 2005. doi:10.1300/j064v25n04_03
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Film mulching significantly increased spring wheat root biomass.
- Intervention effect Soil water absorbed by mulched spring wheat did not rise in proportion to root biomass.
- Intervention effect Film mulch reduced the spring wheat shoot-to-root biomass ratio by 52% in treatment M late in growth.
- Intervention effect Film mulch reduced the spring wheat shoot-to-root biomass ratio by 43% in treatment PM late in growth.
- Observation The spring wheat shoot-to-root biomass ratio was 25% lower in 1998 than in 1999 late in growth.