Claim · model-written summary
Water deficit reduced total biomass.
- Taxon
- grain sorghum
Sorghum bicolort0 - Treatment
- water deficite0
- Outcome
- total biomasse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“water deficit reduced root mass ( p = .0032), stem/leaf mass ( p < .0001) and total biomass ( p = .0005)”
t0“grain sorghum”
Title
C. B. Adams; J. E. Erickson Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2017. doi:10.1111/jac.12216
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Severe vegetative water deficit increased sorghum grain yield by 21% relative to continuously well-watered plants.
- Association Grain yield correlated with average grain weight.
- Association Grain yield correlated with grain number per head.
- Association Grain yield correlated with shoot-to-root ratio.
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced root mass.
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced stem and leaf mass.
- Intervention effect Water deficit increased harvest index by 60%.