Claim · model-written summary
Halving seed rate increased wheat yield by 8·3 cwt. in nitrogen-deficient plots.
- Taxon
- winter wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Halving the seed ratee1
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 8·3 cwt.e0
- Qualifier
- nitrogendeficient plotse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increased yield by amounts ranging from 8·3 cwt. in nitrogendeficient plots to 2·6 cwt./acre in plots well supplied with ammonium sulphate”
e1“Halving the seed rate”
t0“winter wheat”
Title
G. A. Salt The Journal of Agricultural Science 1957. doi:10.1017/s0021859600031695
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Halving seed rate reduced severe wheat eyespot from 63% to 52%.
- Intervention effect Halving seed rate reduced the wheat area stunted by take-all from 36% to 14%.
- Intervention effect Halving seed rate increased wheat yield by 2·6 cwt./acre in well-fertilized plots.
- Intervention effect Ammonium sulphate had little effect on Squareheads Master eyespot lesions.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer increased lodging of Squareheads Master from 23% to 53% and 60% at two rates.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer decreased take-all stunting of Squareheads Master from 47% to 19% and 10%.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer increased Squareheads Master yield from 13 to 17 and 18 cwt./acre.
- Observation Cappelle did not lodge in the trial.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer decreased Cappelle take-all patches from 51% to 28% and 18%.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer increased Cappelle grain yield from 15 to 20 and 21 cwt./acre.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application timing had no important effect on disease incidence or yield in either wheat variety.
- Intervention effect Sulphuric acid reduced lodging and weed cover in wheat blocks.
- Intervention effect Sulphuric acid did not lower eyespot-positive straw below unsprayed plots.