Claim · model-written summary
Combined ureas increased root length density at R1 in 2017 by 20.54%.
- Organ / stage
- R1 stagee0
- Treatment
- combined controlled release urea and normal ureae0
- Outcome
- root length densitye0
- Direction
- advancede0
- Value
- 20.54%e0
- Qualifier
- in 2017e0
- Comparator
- urea treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“Compared to the urea treatment, combined controlled release urea and normal urea advanced the root length density and root weight density in the 0–10 cm soil layer at R1 stage by 30.99% and 45.03% in 2016 and by 20.54% and 19.13% in 2017.”
Title
Liang Tang; Haoran Sun; Ruxiao Sun; et al. Agronomy 2020. doi:10.3390/agronomy10101606
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Combined ureas produced greater maize root systems than normal urea or no nitrogen.
- Intervention effect Combined ureas increased root length density at R1 in 2016 by 30.99%.
- Intervention effect Combined ureas increased root weight density at R1 in 2016 by 45.03%.
- Intervention effect Combined ureas increased root weight density at R1 in 2017 by 19.13%.
- Intervention effect Root length density rose at R5 by 52.05% in 2016.
- Intervention effect Root length density rose at R5 by 47.75% in 2017.
- Intervention effect Root weight density rose at R5 by 19.58% in 2016.
- Intervention effect Combined ureas promoted fine root production and root distribution.
- Intervention effect Combined ureas decreased deep soil water storage at R5.
- Association Grain yield correlated positively with root length and weight densities at R1 and R5.
- Mechanism Authors attribute higher yield from combined urea to greater water extraction through optimized roots.