Claim · model-written summary
Root growth was not influenced by OMC supplementation.
- Taxon
- Tall Fescue
Lolium arundinaceumt0 - Treatment
- OMC supplementatione0
- Outcome
- Root growthe0
- Direction
- not influencede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Tall Fescue”
e0“Root growth was not influenced by OMC supplementation”
Title
Effect of Olive Mill Compost on Native Soil Characteristics and Tall Fescue Turfgrass Development
Panayiotis A. Nektarios; Nikolaos Ntoulas; Scott McElroy; et al. Agronomy Journal 2011. doi:10.2134/agronj2011.0145
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Olive mill compost supplementation decreased substrate pH.
- Intervention effect High olive mill compost decreased bulk density by 32.6%.
- Intervention effect Medium olive mill compost decreased bulk density by 21.1%.
- Intervention effect Low olive mill compost decreased bulk density by 19.4%.
- Intervention effect High olive mill compost increased water holding capacity at 100 cm suction by 57.0%.
- Intervention effect Medium olive mill compost increased water holding capacity at 100 cm suction by 32.7%.
- Intervention effect Low olive mill compost increased water holding capacity at 100 cm suction by 13.3%.
- Intervention effect High OMC had beneficial effects on visual quality and shoot growth, especially during sward establishment.
- Mechanism The beneficial effects of high OMC on visual quality and shoot growth were presumably due to its increased water holding capacity and nutrient availability.
- Intervention effect Root growth was reduced compared with the non-amended control on a single sampling date.
- Observation Detachment force gave nonconclusive results, both between the two years of study and within the same year.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that OMC can be used as a soil amendment to improve soil water-holding capacity, tall fescue quality and clipping yield, with no reduction in detachment force and minimal detriment to root development.