Abstract
One of the main negative effects of climate change is the increasing scarcity of water worldwide. Wheat is the second major staple food of the world and drought is the main factor affecting its production. In order to ensure food security, there is need to adopt easy and economic techniques for increasing crop production under limited water resources. Two of the effective techniques are; use of ground covers and partial root zone drying (PRD). Experiments were comprised of two irrigation methods (I 1 = irrigation on both sides of roots and I 2 = irrigation to only one side of root as alternate irrigation) and four ground covers (M 0 = open ground without any cover, M 1 = black plastic cover, M 2 = wheat straw cover and M 4 = cotton sticks cover). Results revealed that more spike length, number of spikelets and grains were found in full irrigation treatment. While water use efficiency and grain nutrient (NPK) contents were more in PRD. All soil covers suppress the weeds and significantly influenced the yield attributes as well as the grain nutrient contents. However, black plastic cover performed the best. It was concluded that joint use of both techniques was more effective than their sole application and combination of PRD with black plastic mulch performed the best than rest of the treatments.
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Claim · model-written summary
Full irrigation gave more spike length, number of spikelets and grains in wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEAT
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- full irrigation treatmente1
- Outcome
- spike length, number of spikelets and grainse1
- Direction
- moree1
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e1“Results revealed that more spike length, number of spikelets and grains were found in full irrigation treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Water use efficiency and grain NPK contents were higher under PRD in wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- PRDe2
- Outcome
- water use efficiency and grain nutrient (NPK) contentse2
- Direction
- moree2
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e2“While water use efficiency and grain nutrient (NPK) contents were more in PRD”
Claim · model-written summary
All soil covers suppressed weeds in wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- soil coverse3
- Interactor
- weedse3weed
- Outcome
- weedse3
- Direction
- suppresse3
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e3“All soil covers suppress the weeds and significantly influenced the yield attributes as well as the grain nutrient contents”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil covers significantly influenced the yield attributes and grain nutrient contents of wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- soil coverse3
- Outcome
- yield attributes as well as the grain nutrient contentse3
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e3“All soil covers suppress the weeds and significantly influenced the yield attributes as well as the grain nutrient contents”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic cover performed the best among the ground covers.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- black plastic covere4
- Outcome
- performed the beste4
- Direction
- the beste4
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e4“However, black plastic cover performed the best”
Claim · model-written summary
Joint use of partial root zone drying and ground cover was more effective than their sole application in wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- joint use of both techniquese5
- Outcome
- more effectivee5
- Direction
- moree5
- Comparator
- their sole applicatione5
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t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e5“It was concluded that joint use of both techniques was more effective than their sole application and combination of PRD with black plastic mulch performed the best than rest of the treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Combination of PRD with black plastic mulch performed the best of the treatments in wheat.
- Taxon
- WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- combination of PRD with black plastic mulche5
- Outcome
- performed the beste5
- Direction
- the beste5
- Comparator
- rest of the treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“WEED SUPPRESSION IN WHEAT”
e5“It was concluded that joint use of both techniques was more effective than their sole application and combination of PRD with black plastic mulch performed the best than rest of the treatments”
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