Paper · 1977

Effects of azotobacter inoculation and nitrogen levels on yield of sorghum

Kancham Reddy Anush Kumar Reddy; Gudiogopuram B. Reddy; M.R. Reddy; et al.

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Abstract

Seed inoculation with Azotobacter increased grain yields of sorghum by 19.5% in 1975 and 15.2% in 1976. Yields were also increased with increases in applied N from 0 to 150 kg/ha

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Azotobacter seed inoculation increased sorghum grain yield by 19.5% in 1975.

Taxon
sorghumSorghume0
Treatment
Seed inoculation with Azotobactere0
Interactor
AzotobacterAzotobactere0symbiont
Outcome
grain yieldse0
Direction
increasede0
Value
19.5%e0
Qualifier
1975e0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Azotobacter
Azotobacter · Interactor · picture of the genus (one of its species)DAN H. JONES · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Seed inoculation with Azotobacter increased grain yields of sorghum by 19.5% in 1975”

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“Seed inoculation with Azotobacter”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Azotobacter seed inoculation increased sorghum grain yield by 15.2% in 1976.

Taxon
sorghumSorghume0
Treatment
Seed inoculation with Azotobactere0
Interactor
AzotobacterAzotobactere0symbiont
Outcome
grain yieldse0
Direction
increasede0
Value
15.2%e0
Qualifier
1976e0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Azotobacter
Azotobacter · Interactor · picture of the genus (one of its species)DAN H. JONES · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Seed inoculation with Azotobacter increased grain yields of sorghum by 19.5% in 1975 and 15.2% in 1976”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Increasing applied nitrogen from 0 to 150 kg/ha increased sorghum yield.

Taxon
sorghumSorghumt0
Treatment
applied N from 0 to 150 kg/hae0
Outcome
Yieldse0
Direction
increasede0
Comparator
0e0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Sorghum
Sorghum · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“yield of sorghum”

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“Yields were also increased with increases in applied N from 0 to 150 kg/ha”

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Azotobacter · yield · SorghumPositive and negative results

8 papers: 7 positive, 1 negative or no effect

6 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
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inoculation · yield · SorghumPositive and negative results

76 papers: 68 positive, 8 negative or no effect

67 papers in the same direction as this paper · 7 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. no effect
  2. no effect
  3. negative

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nitrogen · yield · SorghumPositive and negative results

290 papers: 264 positive, 26 negative or no effect

263 papers in the same direction as this paper · 22 in the opposite direction · 4 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. negative
  2. negative
  3. negative

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