Claim · model-written summary
Increased soil moisture at 40–80 cm depth inhibits apple root length density
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- increased soil moisture at depths of 40–80 cme2
- Outcome
- apple root length densitye2
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede2
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Verbatim
t0“improved root growth and yield in apple in semi-arid region”
e2“increased soil moisture at depths of 40–80 cm was found to inhibit apple root length density”
Title
Jiabin Liu; Xiaodong Gao; Juanjuan Song; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2025. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109290
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation increased apple yield by 29.37–37.97 % relative to surface drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation increased root length density in the 20–40 cm soil layer by 70.0 %
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation decreased cumulative CO2 emission flux by 5.34–6.53 % relative to surface drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation decreased cumulative N2O emission flux by 14.41–18.51 % relative to surface drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation enhanced cumulative CH4 absorption flux by 14.82–26.51 % relative to surface drip irrigation
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation lowered GHG intensity by 29.41–31.58 % relative to surface drip irrigation
- Association Soil moisture is positively associated with GHG emissions, most strongly in the surface soil layer