Claim · model-written summary
Ear length correlated most strongly with yield among yield components.
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Verbatim
e0“Ear length was the yield component that had highest correlations with yield, among treatments combinations.”
t0“Maize”
Title
M. R. Carlone; W. A. Russell Crop Science 1987. doi:10.2135/cropsci1987.0011183x002700030008x
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- Intervention effect Grain yields did not differ across planting densities.
- Intervention effect Grain yields differed across nitrogen levels.
- Intervention effect Yield rose 78.1% from 0 to 80 kg N ha −1.
- Intervention effect Yield rose 15.8% from 80 to 160 kg N ha −1.
- Intervention effect Yield did not rise further at 240 kg N ha −1.
- Association Cultivar responses to density and nitrogen varied significantly.
- Association Earlier cultivars had nonsignificant or negative density responses.
- Association All 1970 and 1980 cultivars responded positively to density; five of eight responses were significant.
- Association All cultivars had significant positive linear nitrogen responses.
- Association Nitrogen response slopes showed no directional trend across hybrid eras.
- Association Density, nitrogen, and cultivar had a significant three way yield interaction.
- Association Eighteen of 28 cultivars had significant linear by linear density and nitrogen components.