Claim · model-written summary
Sowing date significantly reduced days to flowering for late-sown sunflower.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuuse0 - Treatment
- Sowing datee0
- Outcome
- number of phenological days to floweringe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- latee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sowing date significantly ( P ≤0.05) increased and reduced number of phenological days to flowering of early and late sown sunflower, respectively”
Title
F.O. Oshundiya; V.I.O. Olowe; F.A. Sowemimo; et al. Helia 2014. doi:10.1515/helia-2014-0012
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