Claim · model-written summary
Increasing the seeding density no effect thousand-kernel weight.
- Taxon
- winter wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Increasing the seeding densitye0
- Outcome
- thousand-kernel weighte0
- Direction
- no effecte0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“winter wheat”
e0“Increasing the seeding density increased the number of spikes (fertile tillers), but decreased the grain yield per spike and had no effect on the thousand-kernel weight”
Title
Does root pruning increase yield and water-use efficiency of winter wheat?
Yan Fang; Bingcheng Xu; Neil C. Turner; et al. Crop and Pasture Science 2010. doi:10.1071/cp10125
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Higher density increased root biomass at anthesis.
- Intervention effect Pruning decreased root biomass in the upper layer.
- Intervention effect Pruning increased deep root biomass.
- Intervention effect Higher density reduced grain yield with limited water.
- Intervention effect Higher density increased grain yield with adequate water.
- Intervention effect Root pruning increased grain yield.
- Association Seeding density and root pruning had no interaction for grain yield.
- Intervention effect Root pruning reduced water use between stem elongation and anthesis.
- Intervention effect Root pruning increased available soil water between anthesis and maturity.
- Intervention effect Root pruning increased flag leaf photosynthesis at anthesis.
- Intervention effect Higher density reversed the water use, soil water and photosynthesis pattern of pruning.
- Observation Root pruning initially induced stress that diminished by anthesis and grain filling.
- Intervention effect Increasing the seeding density increased number of spikes.
- Intervention effect Increasing the seeding density decreased grain yield per spike.
- Intervention effect root pruning reduced number of spikes.
- Intervention effect root pruning increased grain yield per spike.
- Intervention effect root pruning increased thousand-kernel weight.
- Intervention effect Root pruning increased water-use efficiency in water-limited environments.