Claim · model-written summary
Mulching increased fresh and dry forage yields for pearl millet.
- Taxon
- pearl millet
Cenchrus americanuse0 - Treatment
- soil mulching with casuarina defoliated leavese0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry forage yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- without soil mulchinge0
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Verbatim
e0“soil mulching with casuarina defoliated leaves significantly increased soil moisture content as well as plant height, number of tillers/m2, fresh and dry forage yields of sorghum and pearl millet forage crops as compared with without soil mulching”
Title
Kh. Hassan; M. Abd El-Maaboud; M. Draz; et al. Journal of Plant Production 2016. doi:10.21608/jpp.2016.45348
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Mulching increased soil moisture content for sorghum.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased plant height for sorghum.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased number of tillers/m2 for sorghum.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased fresh and dry forage yields for sorghum.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased soil moisture content for pearl millet.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased plant height for pearl millet.
- Intervention effect Mulching increased number of tillers/m2 for pearl millet.
- Observation Pearl millet exceeded sorghum for the listed forage traits.
- Intervention effect sorghum forage yield fell 43.2% as N dose decreased.
- Intervention effect pearl millet forage yield fell 29.7% as N dose decreased.
- Observation Pearl millet forage yield exceeded sorghum by more than twofold under salinity.
- Observation Pearl millet had a higher salinity-tolerance slope than sorghum.
- Observation Both forage crops had the same salinity threshold.
- Observation Pearl millet yielded about fourfold more than sorghum in the second cut.
- Intervention effect The 75% soil N dose produced the highest forage yield.
- Intervention effect Increasing foliar urea from 0.5% to 1.5% raised forage yield by 55.8%.