Abstract
Field studies were conducted over a 4-yr period at two locations in western Manitoba, Canada, to evaluate the effect of phosphorus (P) fertilizer management on crop growth as affected by tillage system through a 2-yr cropping sequence. In the first phase of the cropping sequence, canola (Brassica napus L.), a non-mycorrhizal crop, and spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), a mycorrhizal crop, were grown under conventional (CT) and reduced (RT) systems, with 0, 11 and 22 kg P ha -1 applied as monoammonium phosphate (MAP). In the second phase of the sequence, flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) was seeded following the spring wheat or canola, with application of 0 or 11 kg P ha -1 as MAP. Phosphorus application increased the early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulation of canola and wheat and the seed yield of canola. Tillage system had no consistent effects on growth, P concentration or uptake, or seed yields of canola or wheat, nor were P by tillage system interactions observed. Early-season biomass production and seed yields of flax were relatively unaffected by P fertilization whether applied in the same season as flax or in the previous season, although early-season P concentration and P accumulation were increased when P fertilizer was applied to the flax. Of the factors evaluated in this study, preceding crop had the greatest influence on flax growth with flax establishment, early-season biomass, and P accumulation, and seed yield all being significantly greater when flax was seeded after wheat than after canola. Key words: Crop rotation, fertilization, monoammonium phosphate, flax, wheat, canola
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Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorus application increased canola early biomass, phosphorus concentration and accumulation.
- Taxon
- canola
Brassica napus var. napuse0 - Treatment
- Phosphorus applicatione0
- Outcome
- early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“Phosphorus application increased the early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulation of canola and wheat and the seed yield of canola.”
Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorus application increased wheat early biomass, phosphorus concentration and accumulation.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- Phosphorus applicatione0
- Outcome
- early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“Phosphorus application increased the early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulation of canola and wheat and the seed yield of canola.”
Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorus application increased canola seed yield.
- Taxon
- canola
Brassica napus var. napuse0 - Treatment
- Phosphorus applicatione0
- Outcome
- seed yield of canolae0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“Phosphorus application increased the early-season biomass, P concentration, and P accumulation of canola and wheat and the seed yield of canola.”
Claim · model-written summary
Tillage had no consistent effect on canola growth, phosphorus measures or seed yield.
- Taxon
- canola
Brassica napus var. napuse0 - Treatment
- Tillage systeme0
- Outcome
- growth, P concentration or uptake, or seed yieldse0
- Direction
- no consistent effectse0
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e0“Tillage system had no consistent effects on growth, P concentration or uptake, or seed yields of canola or wheat, nor were P by tillage system interactions observed.”
Claim · model-written summary
Tillage had no consistent effect on wheat growth, phosphorus measures or seed yield.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- Tillage systeme0
- Outcome
- growth, P concentration or uptake, or seed yieldse0
- Direction
- no consistent effectse0
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e0“Tillage system had no consistent effects on growth, P concentration or uptake, or seed yields of canola or wheat, nor were P by tillage system interactions observed.”
Claim · model-written summary
There was no observed phosphorus by tillage interaction.
- Outcome
- P by tillage system interactionse0
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e0“nor were P by tillage system interactions observed.”
Claim · model-written summary
Current or preceding season phosphorus fertilizer relatively did not affect flax early biomass or seed yield.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimume0
- Treatment
- P fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- Early-season biomass production and seed yieldse0
- Direction
- relatively unaffectede0
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e0“Early-season biomass production and seed yields of flax were relatively unaffected by P fertilization whether applied in the same season as flax or in the previous season”
Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorus fertilizer on flax increased early phosphorus concentration and accumulation.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimume0
- Treatment
- P fertilizere0
- Outcome
- early-season P concentration and P accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“early-season P concentration and P accumulation were increased when P fertilizer was applied to the flax.”
Claim · model-written summary
Flax establishment, early biomass and phosphorus accumulation were greater after wheat than canola.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimume0
- Treatment
- seeded after wheate0
- Outcome
- flax establishment, early-season biomass, and P accumulatione0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- after canolae0
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e0“flax establishment, early-season biomass, and P accumulation, and seed yield all being significantly greater when flax was seeded after wheat than after canola.”
Claim · model-written summary
Flax seed yield was greater after wheat than canola.
- Taxon
- flax
Linum usitatissimume0
- Treatment
- seeded after wheate0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- after canolae0
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e0“flax establishment, early-season biomass, and P accumulation, and seed yield all being significantly greater when flax was seeded after wheat than after canola.”
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