Claim · model-written summary
Insecticides favored red clover root growth, indicated by larger crown diameters.
- Taxon
- Red Clover
Trifolium pratenset0 - Treatment
- Insecticidese0
- Outcome
- root growthe0
- Direction
- favorede0
- Qualifier
- larger crown diameterse0
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Verbatim
e0“Insecticides favored root growth as evidenced by larger crown diameters”
t0“Red Clover, Trifolium pratense L.1”
Title
K.E. Zeiders; R. C. Newton; J. H. Graham Agronomy Journal 1969. doi:10.2134/agronj1969.00021962006100060038x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Insecticide drenching significantly increased red clover yield in all three harvest years.
- Intervention effect Fungicide drench had little or no effect on red clover yield.
- Intervention effect Caging significantly increased red clover yield in 1966 and 1967.
- Intervention effect Insecticides significantly affected red clover stand survival in 1967, but not in earlier years.
- Intervention effect Caging significantly affected red clover stand survival in 1967, but not in earlier years.
- Intervention effect Caging decreased red clover virus disease incidence and foliar insect damage.
- Intervention effect Caging decreased red clover forage dry matter percentage.
- Observation External root rot was severe on all surviving red clover plants after 39 months regardless of treatment.